On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 14:14, Dave Cridland <dave(_at_)cridland(_dot_)net>
wrote:
On Tue Mar 29 12:28:55 2011, Eric Burger wrote:
Would we not be better off just asking (mandating?) at least one open
source implementation? That effort would produce a de facto API.
Unfortunately this doesn't work in practise.
One of the examples that Sam raised originally concerned TLS, and that has
(at least) three different open-source implementations in library form, all
with fairly different APIs.
"API" has too many meanings. In this case there is the "API" between
app and library, and "API" in the sense of a client/server protocol on
the net. I've learned a few new meanings of API e.g. from cloud
people.
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