Re: [hybi] I-D Action: draft-ietf-hybi-permessage-compression-28.txt

[Tobias Oberstein <[e-mail]>]

> Great; I've checked it too, and I agree.  I've approved it, and you
> should see the announcement soon.

Awesome! The WebSocket compression extension is of great practical value.

>
> The working group will remain open until the RFC is published, after
> which I'll close the working group, but leave the mailing list open

Regarding the closing of the working group, I would like to ask what is 
required to recharter the WG to work on a specific WebSocket subprotocol.

The current WG charter has this to say:

"""
The working group will also serve as a discussion venue for
subprotocols.  However, no subprotocol is currently chartered as a
deliverable, and the WG must be rechartered to work on any
subprotocols.
""" http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-hybi/

The subprotocol I would like to start working on is:

"The Web Application Messaging Protocol (WAMP)"

http://wamp.ws/
https://github.com/tavendo/WAMP/
http://www.iana.org/assignments/websocket/websocket.xml#subprotocol-name

WAMP was the 3rd WebSocket subprotocol officially registered at IANA, 
has gone through 3+ years of development, has nearly two dozen 
independent and interoparable implementations, and an active community.

I have asked on the WAMP implementors mailing list if there is interest 
in working on a RFC for WAMP, and multiple responses indicate that there 
is indeed interest:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wampws/LlKjMF3ZJf8

I am original author of WAMP, and have been active during the 
development of WebSocket and the WebSocket compression extension on the 
Hybi working group.

I also created and maintain the Autobahn WebSocket testsuite - an 
automated testsuite for WS used by most implementors.

http://autobahn.ws/testsuite/

Apart from that I wrote a couple of WebSocket implementations in 
different languages.

However, I never wrote an RFC nor do I know a lot about IETF processes 
and such.

Hence my naive question: what's required to start working on WAMP within 
the context of this WG?

Cheers,
/Tobias