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

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Wed, 30 April 2014 23:48 UTC

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On 4/30/2014 8:20 AM, IAB Chair wrote:
> We often see proposals for APIs (most commonly C APIs) discussed in
> the IETF.

A protocol "API" isn't language-specific; it describes (or ought to) the 
upper and lower layer interactions, e.g., as was done in RFC793.

When we propose an API in the IETF, it should be for that protocol API, 
not for a language API (which is an instance, specific to a language and 
also often an OS, of that protocol API).

(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).

Joe