Re: Review of draft-ietf-httpbis-bcp56bis-03

On 2018/04/08 05:27, otilibil@eurecom.fr wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Here is my review of this draft:
> 
> 1. "At the same time, the Internet community has a tradition of protocol 
> reuse (e.g., Telnet [RFC0854] as a substrate for FTP [RFC0959] and SMTP 
> [RFC2821]), but less experience using HTTP as a substrate."
> 
> If the "Internet community" means "Internet Engineering Task Force", the 
> sentence should plainly state its name, and mention the protocols that 
> the IETF has been building upon others, this includes at least RESTCONF 
> [RFC8040]; the NETCONF working group has built it upon HTTP (the 
> reviewer made them acquainted with this draft, 
> https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/netconf/current/msg14432.html). 
> Maybe a survey to all the Area Directories?

To me, it looks like the above sentence may have been appropriate for 
the first version of this document, but it indeed sounds a bit out of 
place today, unless potentially if it uses an extremely narrow 
definition of 'substrate'.

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Sunday, 8 April 2018 07:30:16 UTC