- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:05:57 +0200
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- CC: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>, IESG IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > ... > I would prefer that the IESG decide whether or not RFC 2616 needs > to be updated by a working group. I would prefer that it not make > any technical decisions for that working group through the > imposition of charter constraints. > ... I believe the current charter proposal attempts to constrain what we are doing in order: - to avoid future requests to invent new authentication mechanisms (recall the long discussion about mandatory-to-implement security), - to avoid that the (IMHO) most important part of the activity gets delayed because we're getting sidetracked too much by other nice-to-have stuff, - to attract contributors who may be willing to invest their time only if there's a chance to produce a new document within a certain amount of time. Personally I really don't care *how* we manage that. Whatever we do, I want to be sure that we can publish one document or a set of documents in 12 months without *then* being asked for a mandatory-to-implement security mechanism. Best regards, Julian
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