- From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:13:32 +0200
- To: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Cc: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>, public-vision-core <public-vision-core@w3.org>
On 4 Aug 2010, at 15:09, Dave Raggett wrote: > The IETF is well known and highly regarded for its work on transport > layer protocols, including HTTP, and provides an effective venue for > work on HTTP, and related work such as streaming HTTP and Web sockets. An observation that I got about this text from somebody around the IETF crowd is that HTTP is a "transfer", not a "transport" protocol. > W3C is an appropriate venue for protocols at a higher level and with a > strong focus on Web data formats and conformance requirements for Web > user agents. This builds upon the skill sets of participants in W3C > Working Groups. > > Strong standards benefit from extensive review and implementation > experience. This is why it is valuable for W3C Working Groups to review > and coordinate with related work at the IETF, and vice versa. In some > cases there will be multiple proposals, and these will have to play out > in the market place, but solid peer review from a broad range of > perspectives will benefit the market whichever solution wins out.
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