- From: Ted Hardie <hardie@thornhill.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:24:55 -0700
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>, Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: masinter@parc.xerox.com
Yaron Goland asked: > > > >Who intends to implement it? Koen Holtman replied: > The lynx people. See the recent message by Foteos Macrides in this > thread. > I am also aware of several efforts to use this mechanism in the context of lightweight no-human user agents. One of these, being done by a different group within NASA, will be using the lightweight state information available through cookies to maintain information about what image data sets have been received from and passed to different reporting stations. Having cookies available lets the interacting servers know that which sets are complete without having to query on each image in each sets; it makes for a nice cheap short cut. I believe that cookies are in widespread use in passing just this kind of shortcut information. Repairing the existing State Management Mechanism is important for interoperability; we want to make sure everyone is using the same standard to create this kind of application. Even if those applications would work fine with the original Netscape docs, having a standards track doc is important. It is being Proposed; if it does not receive adequate implementation support, it will not move on. That's okay. But we shouldn't short circuit the process by assuming that it's dead because two vendors won't be updating to it. The browser market is not the same as the useful field of play for internet protocols. regards, Ted Hardie NASA NIC
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