Re: [apps-discuss] [Fwd: Gen-ART LC review of draft-loreto-http-bidirectional-05.txt]

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 04 January 2011 03:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] [Fwd: Gen-ART LC review of draft-loreto-http-bidirectional-05.txt]
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It's OK for me, but at this point it's really the IESG's
opinion that matters.

Thanks
   Brian Carpenter

On 2011-01-04 12:09, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> To close the loop on-list, the authors have added the following
> paragraph to the introduction:
> 
>    The authors acknowledge that both the "HTTP long polling" and "HTTP
>    streaming" mechanisms stretch the original semantic of HTTP and that
>    the HTTP protocol was not designed for bidirectional communication.
>    This document neither encourages nor discourages the use of these
>    mechanisms, and takes no position on whether they provide appropriate
>    solutions to the problem of providing bidirectional communication
>    between clients and servers.  Instead, this document merely
>    identifies technical issues with these mechanisms and suggests best
>    practices for their deployment.
> 
> That's not quite what we have in version -06, but we'll submit -07 soon
> if Brian doesn't object to that text.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 12/3/10 8:47 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> I thought I should forward my Gen-ART review here, since it
>> contains an opinion statement. See attachment.
>>
>>    Brian
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Gen-ART LC review of draft-loreto-http-bidirectional-05.txt
>> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 16:44:06 +1300
>> From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
>> Organization: University of Auckland
>> To: draft-loreto-http-bidirectional.all@tools.ietf.org,  General Area Review Team <gen-art@ietf.org>
>>
>>
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