Re: Draft for note to send to Push API editors/authors

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
>> I don't see why it would be really.
>
> We can imagine the API being standardized and the transport iterating
> underneath it. That's just good layering.

Sure.


> For instance, if some system decides to deliver push notifications from the
> SMS baseband protocol, should we, as the web platform, decide that's a bad
> thing for them to be doing? I say "no", not because I don't want full specs,
> but because precluding opening this power to developers seems foolhardy at
> the level of an API contract.
>
> If we want to recommend that this WG open up a new effort to specify
> transport and message formats, great. But their API doesn't require it. We
> shouldn't either.

Their API is somewhat tied to the transport layer though. It does not
hand you a URL for nothing... I don't really see how else you could do
that kind of bridging either.


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