- From: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 07:32:49 -0800
- To: Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
- Cc: spreitze@parc.xerox.com, Graham Klyne <GK@dial.pipex.com>, discuss@apps.ietf.org
I second Brian's comments on HTTPng... I don't want to be in a situation where HTTPng is believed to be the "one size that fits all", even if HTTPng works out (and its not soup yet), and would want it free to optimize to web operations, which have a different set of constraints than many other applications protocols: e.g. low latency, since a user is driving it is important for interactive feel, which is NOT a requirement on, say, mail. It is those kinds of requirements (along with the "brittleness" of current systems like CORBA), that have made me believe something other than CORBA or Java RMI is needed for the web. It is also not clear to me that HTTPng requirements should bind APPLCORE hands, as the requirements may be found to be disjoint. While the web is a common application protocol, it should not, in my opinion, be the only one. - Jim -- Jim Gettys Industry Standards and Consortia Compaq Computer Corporation Visting Scientist, World Wide Web Consortium, M.I.T. http://www.w3.org/People/Gettys/ jg@w3.org, jg@pa.dec.com
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