With apologies in advance: "Furthermore, a decision was made to focus on legal traffic only going back to the May 2008 IETF/MIT workshop."
Come again? By what mechanism is ALTO limited to "legal traffic only"? -----Original Message----- From: Vijay K. Gurbani [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:38 PM To: DePriest, Greg (NBC Universal) Cc: Jan Seedorf; alto Subject: Re: [alto] Adopting two I-Ds as WG documents [As co-chair] DePriest, Greg (NBC Universal) wrote: > My apologies for my delay in responding and thanks for taking my > comments into consideration. Greg: Thank you for your input to the draft. More inline. > As for content security being "out of scope" of the charter and ALTO a > "content-agnostic optimization," I can only note that mistakes and > oversights are a part of life. The good news is that we can correct > them. > > After all, the charter wasn't written by God. What stops us? The charter reflects the consensus of the list participants as to the nature of the problem we have agreed to solve. While not cast in stone, it does reflect deliberations and negotiations with IESG and, to a lesser extent, the IAB. Being part of the discussions stretching back to summer 2008, you can very well appreciate the time it has taken to get a workable charter out. Thus, it is not a trivial matter to expand the scope of a charter. Furthermore, a decision was made to focus on legal traffic only going back to the May 2008 IETF/MIT workshop. Nothing in the list discussions since then has indicated a path other than that one. Given the urgent need for a workable solution, and also given the fact that any ALTO solution will not preclude existing or future content management or rights control mechanisms, we feel it is best to let the ALTO work proceed as chartered. Finally, procedures for WG rechartering are defined in RFC 2418. Since the process is quite expensive -- it's roughly comparable to the chartering process that took about 6 month, a BoF and sifting through many email exchanges -- it would be very much appreciated if such a process was carried on limiting the impact on current activities (i.e. on a separate list.) Thanks, - vijay -- Vijay K. Gurbani, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent 1960 Lucent Lane, Rm. 9C-533, Naperville, Illinois 60566 (USA) Email: v...@{alcatel-lucent.com,bell-labs.com,acm.org} Web: http://ect.bell-labs.com/who/vkg/ _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
