Re: [hybi] IESG note?, was: Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

Sylvain Hellegouarch <sh@defuze.org> Mon, 05 September 2011 09:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] IESG note?, was: Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard
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On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Joel Martin <hybi@martintribe.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Sylvain Hellegouarch <sh@defuze.org>
>  wrote:
>
>>  +1. I like that phrasing. It summarizes the requirements document pretty
>>> well
>>>
>>
>> Yet it never was worded that way when this WG started debating mainly WS.
>> In fact, I don't recall any other protocol being discussed on this board so
>> I disagree with the term "requirement" in this very case.
>>
>>
> My point is that Willy's paragraph is a concise summary the current (and
> original) requirements document for WebSockets and the HyBi charter too for
> that matter:
>
> Original WebSocket requirements doc:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-loreto-hybi-requirements-00
> Current WebSocket requirements doc:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-websocket-requirements<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-websocket-requirements-02>
>
> Original WebSocket charter:
> http://tools.ietf.org/wg/hybi/charters?item=charter-hybi-2010-01-26.txt
> Current WebSocket charter: http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/hybi-charter
>
> IMO, the current protocol design fits quite well with the HyBi charter and
> WebSocket requirements. One could argue that the charter and requirements
> document are flawed, but given the starting point, the current result has
> almost fulfilled the original vision (the remaining item is wide adoption,
> but that seems very likely assuming the WG work isn't derailed in the
> meantime).
>
>

Fair enough. Though I'd say we still lack large set of implementations,
specially at intermediaries side, as well as other use-cases beyond what was
initially provided.

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