[hybi] short term requirements

[Salvatore Loreto <[e-mail]>]

Hi there,

as you may have read on the Agenda draft,
during the BoF meeting we will discuss, among other stuff, requirements 
for Short Term solution.

This is a call to collect requirements that you think a Short Term 
solution should meet.

Draft-loreto-http-bidirectional 
(http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-loreto-http-bidirectional-00.txt)
is a tentative to describe best practices for bidirectional HTTP in the 
context of HTTP as it exists today.
In order to design additions (section 6 of the draft to see some 
example) that could enable improved mechanisms
for bidirectional HTTP  (short term solution) we have to identify the 
requirements that those additions have to meet
in order to improve interoperability and such to provide an improved 
experience.

Here a first rough list of requirements collected from the bar BoF in 
Stockholm and from the HyBi mail discussion.
It is just a list to start the discussion

Req.   possibility for the intermediaries to access and modify it
Req.   it must be usable from multiple (existing) browser
Req.   it must be easily to use and accessible from different protocols 
(e.g. Bayeux, Bosh etc)
Req.   it must be easy to deploy in the existing infrastructure
Req.   it has really improve the bi-directional communication (not just 
push from a server to a client)
Req.   it has not introduce any security hole


please provide comments, opinions, suggestion.

best regards
Salvatore Loreto