Re: [Gen-art] review of draft-reschke-webdav-mount-04.txt

Scott W Brim <swb@employees.org> Mon, 31 July 2006 13:06 UTC

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On 07/31/2006 08:58 AM, Brian E Carpenter allegedly wrote:
> If you interpret HTTP as
>    How To Traverse Phirewalls
> the architectural issue seems to vanish :-)
> 
>    Brian

It just gets us into the whole architectural issue of where the waist
of the hourglass is, and if in fact it's better engineering to have
more than one (like the old layerist days).  I think the so-called
"off-path" group is going to be important, exploring the use of SIP as
a session initiation protocol.

> 
> Scott W Brim wrote:
>> Sent just to gen-art.
>>
>> Without investigating whether HTTP for remote file management and
>> editing is something the IETF should condone, or investigating and
>> critiquing the whole webdav architecture ... given the assumed
>> environment, it is consistent and clean.  Ready.
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