RE: Proposed charter, please comment

["Oskar Batuner" <oskar@mirror-image.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cdn@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-cdn@ops.ietf.org]On Behalf Of
> Mark Day
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:44 PM
> To: John Martin; cdn@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: RE: Proposed charter, please comment
>
>
> > Fine. I think adding the word "existing" would work for me. I don't like
> > "Web-based" as a phrase because we already see way too much confusion of
> > the "internet == web" sort.
>
> How about explicitly ruling out what we agree we don't want to do, with
> language such as:
>
> "The working group will not consider new transport protocols, nor
> changes to
> existing transport protocols such as HTTP and RTSP."

Mark, for me this looks much worse that the initial
"web-based" restriction. This may be considered as ruling out
let's say new HTTP headers and methods -  things that perfectly
fit into normal HTTP practices.

Oskar