On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 16:23 -0500, Robert Sparks wrote: > >> > > From my memory of what happened at the time (which may be faulty): > > After a long, and in the end relatively pointless, argument about text > vs binary formatting, the consensus of the group was to go a text > format. > Rather than invent one from scratch (which may or may not have > rendered a more graceful syntax), the participants in the discussion > decided > explicitly to reuse as much of HTTPs grammar as we could. Some of the > arguments were along the lines of speeding implementation by allowing > the reuse of existing parser code. There were other points made at the > time of a similar nature.
There were also some at the time who had hopes that it could be made to work transparently through HTTP proxies. That didn't last long, though. -- Scott Lawrence tel:+1.781.229.0533;ext=162 or sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sipXecs project coordinator - SIPfoundry http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipXecs CTO, Voice Solutions - Bluesocket Inc. http://www.bluesocket.com/ http://www.pingtel.com/ _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors
