RE: Proposed charter, please comment

["Gordon Rae" <premium@pavilion.co.uk>]

I agree with Mark that this working group should be focussed, but 'web
based' seems too narrow. Shouldn't the aim be to facilitate the
interoperation of content networks that use IETF protocols? To be specific,
I would like CDI to work well with ip-multicast protocols.

Gordon Rae
Consultant and Researcher
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}-----Original Message-----
}From: owner-cdn@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-cdn@ops.ietf.org]On Behalf Of
}Mark Day
}Sent: 25 January 2001 16:45
}To: John Martin; cdn@ops.ietf.org
}Subject: RE: Proposed charter, please comment
}
}
}> >A content network is an architecture of Web-based network
}> >elements, arranged
}> >for efficient delivery of digital content.
}>
}> Why Web-based? Does that exclude non-HTTP objects? Actually, if you just
}> remove the phrase "Web-based", this reads just fine (to me).
}
}While technically correct, I worry that this moves us in the wrong
}direction
}(increasing generality).  I consider it quite important that the working
}group focus on the problems of delivering content within the frameworks of
}DNS, HTTP, RTSP, etc. as they exist now.
}
}For example, I think it would be a tremendous waste of time to use this
}group to develop a system for interoperation of content networks that
}required replacing the existing protocol infrastructure of the web. That
}could well be a worthy and fun project, but it would be a research project
}as opposed to a standards project.
}
}Now, I'm pretty sure that you're not trying to get us to do that,
}but I want
}to be sure that the charter rules it out.  I would be happy with more
}careful phrasing, and perhaps we need to catalog the things that
}we will not
}do instead of relying on the fuzzy phrase "Web-based." But I am wary of
}broadening the scope to any arrangement of network elements that delivers
}content efficiently.
}
}--Mark
}
}
}
}
}