- From: Mike Spreitzer <spreitze@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:47:11 PDT
- To: <martind@netfolder.com>, "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@simonstl.com>, <ietf-http-ng@w3.org>
> So what is happening now with the chair work? Well, as I said, all *I'm* doing is working on publishing (well, maybe cleaning up a *little*) what we've done, and working on the research problems revealed (PARC is a research lab, after all). If anyone else wants to step forward to chair an IETF effort, that would be applauded by me. > >From an otehr perspective, being an ILU user myself, I found > several things > from usage... > > So, if HTTP-NG would use XML as a marshalling tool, we would have the > occasion to: > - merge potentially several world like Webdav, the usual HTTP and object > middleware. > - resolve the biggest problem experimented with the usage of XML is the > impedance mismatch between this format and procedural languages. I think you've represented one corner of the world I'd like to see HTTP-NG address, but not the whole world. There are others who would like to see other things emphasized, and for whom XML-based marshalling, for instance, is more trouble than it's worth. I think the answer here is to be radically modular (at least in design --- but not necessarily any implementation, for performance's sake), letting different folks get what they want, and decide for themselves what interoperability trade-offs they want to make. Another thing I'm interested in is the problem of significant evolution in the sophistication of a largely deployed system. Successful systems often start out as small, simple things. But as they succeed and grow in scope and ambition, initial trade-offs between simplicity and power become inappropriate, and a switch to more powerful underpinnings becomes desirable. But rarely practical. Mike
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