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Re: Call for volunteers for C/C++ API liaison manager

2014-04-30 23:36:50

On 04/30/2014 10:21 PM, Joe Touch wrote:


On 4/30/2014 7:36 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:
On 4/30/14 3:48 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
(that doesn't preclude the benefit of a liason to a language-standards
group, but we shouldn't be seeing IETF proposals for such instances IMO).

Probably not, but it seems pretty clear that deployment
of some IETF protocols has suffered from either the lack
of a comprehensive API, or crappy API.

+1

However, somewhere along the line, AFAICT the IETF started thinking of protocol APIs as language implementations, and decided (rightly) that the latter was out of scope, and threw the baby out with the bathwater.

IMO, a protocol is *incomplete* without its protocol API.

FWIW, Martin and I understand this, and that's one of the points I've been stressing about the IETF 89 TAPS BOF.

I'd like to throw the baby back in. The bathwater can stay gone.

Spencer, who is really disturbed at the word picture he just drew ;-)