Re: [hybi] Multiplexing in WebSocket (Was: HyBi Design Space)

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>> The Web Sockets API and protocol is a joint effort of the Web Apps WG 
>>> in the W3C, the WHATWG, and this mailing list. Input is going to come 
>>> from many places, including all those, as well as blogs, IRC, etc.
>> So how do you guarantee that all input that you take follows the IETF 
>> IPR rules? <http://www.ietf.org/about/note-well.html>
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, the IETF does not have a policy of ignoring feedback 
> that comes from outside the IETF, so I don't see why the above would make 
> this difficult. Did you have a specific rule in mind?
> 
> (It would be pretty stupid to ignore outside feedback!)

Yes it would.

One good compromise is to report the outside feedback on the WG's 
mailing list, and to continue to discuss over there.

A bad approach is to say "I got outside feedback to do it that way, and 
that's what I'm doing. Take it or leave it". (Note: I'm not saying you did)

BR, Julian