- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:30:17 -0700
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>, http-live-streaming-review <http-live-streaming-review@group.apple.com>, Travis Brown <travis@apple.com>, Steve Sinclair <steve.sinclair@apple.com>, Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@apple.com>
On Aug 5, 2009, at 10:05 AM, David Singer wrote: > At 16:09 -0700 4/08/09, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >> On Aug 4, 2009, at 3:15 PM, David Singer wrote: >>> The goal of the draft is to produce interoperable >>> implementations. We wish to keep it focused on a single >>> transport: HTTP. >> >> HTTP is not a transport. > > OK, it is a transfer protocol; and this draft layers on it. No, it just uses it. User agents and media types are not another layer -- they are simply using the protocol to transfer messages. I don't understand why you are insisting on this marketing crap. Just describe the media type and its meaning as the contents change over time. Which protocol is used to transfer those contents is completely orthogonal and we need to insist on the orthogonality principle being obeyed if we are to avoid being drowned by over-specification. ....Roy
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