- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 23:03:01 PST
- To: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Yaron, Please save your ranting for alt.bash.evil-empire. If we weren't engaged in social engineering, we wouldn't have a requirement for a "security considerations" section. You are completely free to implement whatever the market lets you get away with implementing, and the IETF has no way to control it. It's only if you want the IETF as whole to endorse the protocol that you want to implement as an "internet standard" that you have to put up with the pain of actually considering those things which are established as IETF priorities. This does not include "Your product must not crash, EVER, ohh and yeah, it has to run on LINUX" (although neither of those would be bad ideas), but it does include being careful to consider the issues of security, privacy, effect on the overall operation of the internet, internationalization, even when those are not clearly within your current short-term market horizin. No one has anything with which to bash the head of any browser maker. This is a consensus process. If the browser makers don't go along, well, then we can have either a different standard or no standard. It's really up to you. But this is not a free-market economy model, winner-take-all. This is a consensus model. Convince us that you're right. Ranting is not a useful method of convincing anyone. -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
Received on Wednesday, 19 March 1997 00:05:49 UTC