- From: Robert Waldstein <wald@library.ho.lucent.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:20:02 -0500
- To: Mark Needleman - DRA <mneedlem@dra.com>
- Cc: www-zig@w3.org
> how would you propose that some of the negotiation about buffer sizes and
> services supported (plus protocol version) be handled if there is no init
> - Im not necessarily opposed to this - just interested in how you see
> those types of things being handled
- buffer sizes: do alot of this negotiation in HTTP? I just wouldn't
bother, you would get what you asked for or as much as I was willing
to give you.
- services: this actually always bothered me.
What does a server do now with a client that ignores
the option bits? Oh yes - if good OSI targets they shut down cause
it is a "bad" client.
- protocol version: actually this is interesting. But so far I don't think
we use it? That is, PDUs aren't laid out differently in the different
versions - they just have new features added. If we had laid out the
PDUs differently this would be a serious problem; but the feature issue
I answer like the above; that is, what do the servers do now when
something is requested/used that they don't know or support.
- authentication (you didn't mention it but someone will): I never liked
this anyway. I would think most servers have something they wish could
be free (e.g. advertising their service, test DBs, etc). My server
certainly has DBs with different level of needed authentication. So
yes, if you need authentication do access control.
THis I think people will object to - could also solve this be having
and agreed upon otherInfo item for access control.
bob waldstein wald@lucent.com
Received on Monday, 8 January 2001 10:20:04 UTC