Re: [hybi] Extensibility mechanisms?

Scott Ferguson <ferg@caucho.com> Tue, 20 July 2010 23:22 UTC

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Mike Belshe wrote:
>
> For as adamantly as Ian states that it should be a requirement, I am 
> just as adamant that it should not.
>
> Every protocol expert I've spoken with agrees that amateur protocol 
> implementors should not be a requirement.
>
> Is there some way we can vote to either keep or nullify this 
> requirement now and never come back to it again?  I'm tired of this 
> obstacle holding everything up.
+1

-- Scott