- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:15:03 +1000
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
HI Willy, On 21/07/2012, at 3:23 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:17:53AM +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> There's been a lot of discussion about client-initiated session identifiers >> on list lately. >> >> This is interesting, and perhaps important work, but it's squarely outside of >> our *current* scope of work. >> >> I'd encourage the folks who are interested in it to work on a proposal (or >> three) in the form of Internet-Drafts; we can then spend some time discussing >> them, before figuring out what to do about it. As it is, the on-list >> discussion is getting somewhat circular. > > Mark, > > a draft is something appropriate when ideas are already in shape. Designing > while writing a draft and without other participants' ideas and feedback is > a very hard task (and not always efficient). Some discussions with the people > on the list help figure out what ideas are wrong because the people with > knowledge and experience are here. That's great, and normally I'd be much more willing to let this conversation run its course. However, we had more than sixty messages in a handful of days. Right now, the Working Group is supposed to be concentrating on selecting a starting point for further work, as well as discussing the authentication proposals, and I don't want people to be distracted / arguing about this going into next week's meeting. I'm not saying this isn't a valuable -- and potentially promising -- conversation. I just want to see it pause. > Granted this can look like pollution compared to the scope of reviewing > draft-20 and expressing support for 2.0 drafts, but if the participants > silently work in their garage on a draft, they won't work on the current > scope either and they'll come up with solutions which only reflect their > own use. > > Maybe instead we should be strict on selecting the subjects of e-mails so > that it's easier to skip the undesired threads and limit pollution ? It's quite likely we'll be doing that in the future, yes. Right now, however, it's mostly a timing issue. Thanks, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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