- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 20:30:10 -0400
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- cc: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>, www-talk@w3.org
> Pretend HTTP didn't exist, and that all we knew was that we wanted a > protocol that could be used to resolve URI, while keeping in mind that > it is an error to try to build this protocol to only accept some URI, > and not all. depends on what you mean by "resolve". if you mean "ask for metadata", then I'd say it should look a lot like RC. if you mean "get", where the payload is likely to be long and best transferred without loss, then HTTP is not a bad approximation. but IMHO "get" is best implemented in different protocols for different kinds of media - I don't think it's a good idea to try to make a one-size-fits-all get. Keith RC = draft-ietf-rescap-rc-01.txt
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