- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:57:19 -0800
- To: spreitze@parc.xerox.com, jg@pa.dec.com, frystyk@w3.org
- Cc: ietf-http-ng@w3.org
Hi Mike, > I've started trying to draft the mux WG charter. You can see the > draft at > <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP-NG/1999/02/mux-Charter-202.html>. Thanks for posting your initial draft charter. Staying within the scope created by this charter, my comments are: The charter states: "The goal of this working group is to standardize a protocol ..." A working group doesn't "standardize" a protocol, they develop a protocol, which then hopefully is adopted, and becomes a de-facto standard. The IETF carefully works to distinguish the act of creating a protocol from its standardization status, so that's why this raised a red flag for me. Replacing "standardize" with "develop" probably works. "...a reliable bidirectional byte stream protocol (such as TCP)." Is your intent to keep in-scope discussion of use of MEMUX over non-TCP reliable transports? Let me toss out a red-herring: would MEMUX over Zmodem be in-scope? Some items which were missing, but which often appear in charters: * A discussion of what is in scope, and out of scope. * A list of deliverables. You'll definitely have a protocol document, and presumably there will also be a goals document. Does a model document, or some kind of operational characteristics/performance document make sense here? Also, have editors been determined for these deliverables? The "Goals and Milestones" section is pretty sparse and, given the level of activity on this list so far, a bit ambitious. Also, while I think both you and Jim Gettys are very qualified to be WG chairs, I'm curious as to how you're sharing the chair duties. If "the buck stops here", on whose desk does this sign sit? I don't think this needs to go into the charter, but it would be helpful to have some public statement on this topic, so WG members know how the chair's role is being shared. - Jim
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