Re: [paws] WG Review: Protocol to Access White Space database (paws)

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Wed, 20 April 2011 09:26 UTC

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Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

>On 4/19/11 1:47 PM, Paul Lambert wrote:
>  
>
>>How does the area that the group is assigned impact the choices of
>>technology?
>>
>>I'm an advocate for an efficient solution set for PAWS ... it will be
>>much like DNS for spectrum in the future and should be viewed as a
>>core infrastructural component that needs careful design.  There are
>>good reasons that routing protocols don't use XML.
>>
>>Applications now days tend to go for the simple, quick to make a web
>>application solutions using XML or the like ...  My concern is that
>>"Applications" imply that efficiency does not matter.
>>    
>>
Absolutely not. There are several counter examples in Apps, both past 
and present. (E.g. Lemonade WG was about optimized use of bandwidth for 
IMAP.)

>A quick look at the specifications for the CORE WG in the Applications
>Area will show you that we're able to produce protocols that are quite
>slim on the wire.
>
Exactly.