Re: [apps-discuss] Proposal for a Finance Area Mailing List

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:41 PM, =JeffH <[e-mail]> wrote:
> A separate but related question is whether "financial-protocol" folk need
> different underlying  protocols, for transport/transfer of this particular
> type of data and notifications, than what is extant (and implemented &
> shipping) today (e.g., HTTP, TLS/SSL, SCTP, XMPP, etc.).
>
> If not, then perhaps they might concentrate on the stuff at their
> "financial" layer and concoct "bindings" to the existing underlying stuff
> (eg, as we did in SAML & Liberty (to HTTP)) as appropriate, and they then
> could perhps more easily work on their "financial" layer whereever (eg, W3C,
> OASIS, SomeNew.org, etc).
>
> The overall key is (as has been noted in this thread) getting a critical
> mass of subject matter experts to show up with the cycles/commitment to
> accomplishing something. So one should select a venue that such folk are
> most likely to participate in. That may or may not be the IETF

Yes... this is exactly the sort of discussion I was looking to
generate *here*, before deciding whether it should be spun off to a
separate mailing list.  These are the sorts of questions that aren't
answered in the original request -- and, of course, can't be, yet,
until some discussion happens.

The bar for creating a new non-WG mailing list is fairly low, so the
ADs are not looking for definitive answers.  We just want a sense of
who will participate, where it's (roughly) likely to go, and how
likely it is to wind up with work for the IETF.

And it's OK if we create the mailing list and in the end the
participants decide to go elsewhere.  As I said, the bar is pretty
low.[1]  But there is a bar.

Barry


[1] But is it a pole-vault bar (high is harder) or a limbo bar (low is
harder)?  Hmmmm....