John Merrells wrote:


On 20-Jan-06, at 10:27 AM, Scott Hollenbeck wrote:

OK, I agree with the "why HTTP" question.  That's one you guys need to
figure out.  I'm telling you now, though, that a charter that does not
describe at least one method to produce interoperable implementations will
not be approved by the IESG.


I've been chewing this over all day:

We can't mandate that the other party in the exchange implement

Isn't the point of issue here that there needs to be documented a way to (stealing the words) "produce interoperable implementations" so that it can be shown that it _works_ by having "interoperable implementations" - this isn't a question of mandating anything, but codifying how using the protocol over one method of transport would work.

"To ensure interoperability between implementations we mandate
that the user's client and their agent must support at least DIX
over HTTP."

So rather than this, a document describing the protocol over, say, HTTP would be a deliverable.

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Pete

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