Re: [Ohttp] Discovery

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 11:23 AM Livingood, Jason <Jason_Livingood=
40comcast.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

> > The former is extremely difficult, for many of the same trust reasons
> that DoX discovery is difficult, but even moreso. The second is cleanly
> separable. Given that there is real value in the protocol with neither form
> of discovery, I don't think it's useful to charter them, especially in the
> absence of any real proposals. If someone comes up with such a proposal, we
> can consider a recharter then.
>
> Just throwing out ideas to see if there's common ground... Another way to
> approach it might be to say in the charter that discovery is not an initial
> priority but the WG may address it later on, or at a lower priority, or in
> parallel. That could enable those folks interested in that problem to feel
> like they have a productive outlet for doing so. Of course the challenge
> for the WG chairs would be to ensure that did not detract from dev of the
> core protocol.
>

This seems reasonable to me, as long as it's not a gating factor for
publishing the main document.

-Ekr

> JL
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