Hi  Michael,

>
>Okay, it seems we're all on the same page. My heavy reaction to the email
>before (and sorry Karen, I had forgotten why you sent it! Indeed that was
>agreed upon at the last meeting) was because I'm afraid of the logical
>conclusion:
>"this is what applications currently configure in current protocols" =>
>"this is
>what a TAPS API would need to provide".

[Karen ] No problem - the clarification was important :-).
Yes I think so (one the same page).
And I did not intend to make the above corollary.

The purpose of the posting was to provide information on presently
drawn on transport service API granularity by a set of applications
(Real-time signaling applications).
I believe such information is relevant to put the abstraction of Taps into
context. Regardless of where
the line of abstraction ends up being drawn.

>
>Rather, I think it would be better to focus on *why* applications currently
>configure the things they do, such that we can then provide something
>reasonable and meaningful to them.
>Then again, even that is something we could spend much time on, and
>possibly in vain: I believe that applications that  are configuring all
>these things
>nowadays probably wouldn't be "customers" of TAPS anyway.
>TAPS generally targets programmers of applications who are willing to give
>up
>some control, for the possible benefits that come with abstraction. This
>will
>always only be a subset of applications.
>
[Karen ] Yes - the difficult job is to strike the right balance.

>Cheers,
>Michael

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