Dear all,
Sorry if you receive multiple copies of this! I sent it to all the lists with
potentially interested folks... (this should be okay to do according to
RFC5434, which says "various mailing lists").
A community of interest is being formed to gauge whether there is sufficient
interest to host a BOF at the London IETF, on the topic of "Transport
Services". The intention is to create a WG that would define the set of
services that transport protocols offer to applications, such that applications
could at some point in the future request a service, not a protocol. This could
foster innovation (protocols could be tried out, with a fall-back, without
requiring the application programmer to include such functionality); it could
also give more freedom to whatever resides below the API to automatically make
the best out of what it currently has available.
If you're interested in this problem space, please visit the related webpage
that I have set up:
https://sites.google.com/site/transportprotocolservices/
There you'll find an initial stab at a charter and all information about the
mailing list - please join us and participate in discussions! Thanks!
Cheers,
Michael