Re: WG Review: Open Pluggable Edge Services (opes)

[hardie]

> 
> The IETF can defer to other standards bodies if it so chooses, but I believe
> the Application Area will eventually become irrelevent in the web arena and
> the W3C will take over all of that protocol work. (A current example: where
> do we do cache invalidation protocol work and how scalable is the solution?)

See draft-day-cdnp-model-06.txt for some of the work going on; though
the CDNI work has not yet resulted in a working group, Mark Day et al
certainly seem to be doing their work with a view to the IETF process
(open publication of documents and input from as broad a community as
possible).  



> If people have specific suggestions for improving the charter, I personally
> welcome them.  If not, I'd like the IETF leadership to make the decision
> about whether we're in the business of doing web application protocol work
> or not and then decide what to do with the OPES charter request.

Having a Norwegian Chair does not mean we like red herrings.  The IESG needs
to decide whether or not the work specified in the OPES charter belongs as
a working group effort within the IETF; that does not imply a decision on
whether we're in the business of doing web application protocol work.

                        regards,
                                Ted Hardie