- From: Graham Klyne <GK@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 12:51:33 +0100
- To: Ted Hardie <hardie@thornhill.arc.nasa.gov>, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
On further reflection about the issues of content negotiation, I am coming to think that there should be two (mainly) orthogonal issues here which could be dealt with by separate statements of requirements (in either common or separate requirement document[s]): (1) Negotiation framework and metadata requirements which address the broad goals of negotiation in a protocol-independent fashion. (2) Specific requirements which relate to negotiation issues specific to operating in an HTTP context (e.g. relation to HTTP protocol operations, cache interactions, security issues, existing HTTP negotiation mechanisms, application to variant selection, etc.). My thoughts are prvoked in part by my reading of the Koen Holtman (et al) negotiation draft: he has clearly trying to separate protocol-dependent issues from protocol-independent issues but I feel that the negotiation metadata structures are still very much oriented to HTTP operations (unnecessarily so, IMO). GK. --- ------------ Graham Klyne GK@ACM.ORG
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