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

2014-05-01 07:13:59

        APIs are not that useful unless there is code behind them.  Are you 
proposing code that goes with those APIs?  Also the language that you do this 
in is important depending on the area of applicability. For instance, if these 
APIs are related to modern applications, C is all but useless because its not 
used to build most of those; you need Java/python/etc... for these cases.  

        --Tom


On 4/30/2014 8:20 AM, IAB Chair wrote:
We often see proposals for APIs (most commonly C APIs) discussed in
the IETF.

A protocol "API" isn't language-specific; it describes (or ought to) the 
upper and lower layer interactions, e.g., as was done in RFC793.

When we propose an API in the IETF, it should be for that protocol API, not 
for a language API (which is an instance, specific to a language and also 
often an OS, of that protocol API).

(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).

Joe



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