On 06/22/2011 08:29 AM, Thiago wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing this to ask if others agree that publishing Protocol
> Buffers language and encoding as an IETF RFC would be a good idea.
I think a protobuf RFC would be fantastic!
> One of the questions I was asked when suggesting to adopt PB was: "Is
> this a standard or just a project that could be abandoned by the
> creators/maintainers at some time?" I know it's open source and anyone
> could continue to work on the code, but I think publishing it as a RFC
> would help it being adopted.
It does seem highly unlikely that Google, or any of the rest of us
who've built up an infrastructure around Protocol Buffers, will abandon
it anytime soon. An RFC, however, would certainly clarify this
commitment. And while the current documentation is sufficient for
building a compatible implementation, formalizing the requirements seems
like the right thing to do if we want to Play Nice (tm) with everyone else.
If there's interest and agreement to do this, I would be delighted to help.
--
Neil Dantam
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ndantam3/
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~ndantam3/docs/s-protobuf/
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