Re: Proposed charter, please comment

[Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com>]

John Martin wrote:

> 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

RTSP has a very html like interface, and is designed to be used from browsers. FWIW, I would consider it
web based.


>
>
> 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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