RE: Proposed charter, please comment

[John Martin <jmartin@netapp.com>]

Noone is saying that we should be psychic about new protocols. I'm talking 
about the apparent *restriction* to "Web-based" protocols.

RTSP is certainly "existing" but, by my definition, it is certainly not 
"Web-based". To me "Web-based" == HTTP.

John

At 01:02 PM 26/01/01 -0500, Abbie Barbir wrote:

>I do agree with mark here, I think we should try to ride on existing 
>protocols.
>
>Regarding the charter, it looks fine to me
>
>Abbie Barbir
>Nortel Networks
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>From:   Mark Day [<mailto:markday@cisco.com>mailto:markday@cisco.com]
>Sent:   Thursday, January 25, 2001 11:45 AM
>To:     John Martin; cdn
>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
>
>

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