Re: Points of order on this WG

On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:03:48 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>  
wrote:

> On Jul 4, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:

>> We are "potentially interested" - i.e. we want to see how the spec  
>> comes out first. Given that this is in the scope of existing  
>> deliverables, and given taht Oracle are providing the resources to edit  
>> it, I see no reason to simply stand in their way.

> I think a B-Tree style storage API would clearly be in scope of existing  
> deliverables. However, it's not clear to me that Oracles's other  
> proposals (programmable http cache, request interception) are. As I  
> understand it, those technologies don't really relate to storage, or  
> even networking as such, but are meant to serve a role similar to  
> HTML5's Application Cache feature. Also, Nikunj's request was to add  
> these things to the charter, from which I infered the charter doesn't  
> already obviously cover them.

As I noted in my earlier message to Nikunj, as far as we (chairs, staff  
contacts and domain lead) can see the features *do* relate to storage, and  
are in scope of the charter as is.

So it's OK, you don't need to worry about the charter changing.

cheers

Chaals

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