Re: NS, Verisign, Firefly proposal [was Re: Revised charter , milestones from guthery@austin.sar.slb.com on 1997-05-29 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 1997)

From: <guthery@austin.sar.slb.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 02:01:32 -0500
To: paulh@imc.org
Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <199705290701.CAA01054@asterix>

Paul Hoffman says ...

>IMHO, discussing technology for which there is no published specification,
>much less technology that will not be formed in the IETF, is probably not a
>good use of this mailing list. When the technology is released from the W3C
>WG, this group can assess how it affects the HTTP protocol, but not until
>then.

Amen.

1) The press release says the spec will be released on the 27th.  It wasn't.

2) Netscape evidentally doesn't know the difference between a spec 
   and a press release.

3) What we have here is a closed open process.  What did the caterpillar say?

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