Re: [hybi] Extensibility mechanisms?

[Ian Hickson <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Greg Wilkins wrote:
> 
> I'm sorry but despite your original aims, enabling amateur programmers 
> to write protocols that avoid the need for vendor supplied 
> infrastructure is not the prime reason this WG has come into existence.

If that isn't a goal for this working group, then that's fine, but it 
means I'm in the wrong group.


> The reason that most of us are here, and the reason that our employers 
> pay our salaries to be here, is so that vendors can produce software 
> and/or appliances that can be deployed by their clients with some remote 
> hope of interoperating with the products from other vendors.

The reason I'm here is that the IETF asked me to work on Web Sockets in 
this working group. Web Sockets is a technology aimed as, as you put it, 
enabling amateurs programmers to write protocols that avoid the need for 
vendor supplied infrastructure (amongst other things). If the IETF is 
still interested in working on such a technology, what's the right working 
group for it? If the IETF is not interested in working on such a working 
group, then it would be in everyone's interests for that to be made clear, 
so that we don't act at cross purposes, and so that the work on that 
technology can resume elsewhere.

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