- From: David Ezell <David_E3@Verifone.Com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:23:55 -0500
- To: XML Distributed Applications List <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
- Cc: "'rwaldrop@webmethods.com'" <rwaldrop@webmethods.com>
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:40:00+0500 Randy Waldrop wrote: >>"...encourage a common >>approach for providing facilities such as: authentication, >>encryption, reliable delivery, sessions and transactions." > >It seems like some of these requirements may actually be higher >level (application) issues. I would like to hear more arguments that >they should be in the scope of the XP spec. It may not be clear from the language. What is suggested is that XP have clear *facilities* to create implementations of these features, not that XP define the features. Such facilities would suffice for implementing most required implementations (80/20). Because of the urgent need for these features, it is a good bet that implementors will immediately begin to introduce their own home grown solutions, rendering almost all implementations non-interoperable; that would be a shame, to say the least. Since the features themselves are clearly out of scope at this time, this requirement is intended to provide a next-best thing: a design which promotes "best-practice" in implementing the features, vastly improving the possibility for interoperability. Granted there's a slippery slope here, but to withdraw entirely and make no attempt to address the design problem is to invite difficulty later. All the best, -David
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