- From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 01:05:54 -0700
- To: Christopher Allen <ChristopherA@consensus.com>
- Cc: ietf-tls@w3.org
Christopher Allen wrote: > > At 10:45 PM -0700 5/9/96, Bennet Yee wrote: > >Myself, I'd prefer to see this WG (or a subsequent > >one) specify some minimal core API (for Unix, Windows, and MacOS), so > >that we wouldn't run into these problems in the future, or at least > >run into them once for everybody rather than multiply in various > >different ways for various vendors / freeware implementations. > > I'm uncomfortable with this. Hasn't IETF's experience with defining API's > (as opposed to protocols) been poor? Someone else want to comment on > their specific experience of trying to define APIs through an IETF > standards process? I agree. I'd prefer the WG to concentrate on the protocol with, perhaphs, an information RFC afterwards about a possible API. I don't want protocol design hampered by trying to adhere to some predefined API. -- One tag to rule them all, One tag to find them; One tag | Tom Weinstein to bring them all, and in the source tree bind them. | tomw@netscape.com
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