Re: Call for volunteers for C/C++ API liaison manager

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

On 4/30/2014 7:36 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:
> On 4/30/14 3:48 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
>> (that doesn't preclude the benefit of a liason to a language-standards
>> group, but we shouldn't be seeing IETF proposals for such instances IMO).
>
> Probably not, but it seems pretty clear that deployment
> of some IETF protocols has suffered from either the lack
> of a comprehensive API, or crappy API.

+1

However, somewhere along the line, AFAICT the IETF started thinking of 
protocol APIs as language implementations, and decided (rightly) that 
the latter was out of scope, and threw the baby out with the bathwater.

IMO, a protocol is *incomplete* without its protocol API.

> I'm thinking of
> IPSec, newer DNS features, etc.  I think it's very much
> in the interest of the IETF to have someone around who
> can talk to some of the language standards bodies about
> how to expose protocol features, how to deal with options,
> etc.

It is, if you can find someone who knows both and can attend both ;-)

Joe