Re: [Ohttp] John Scudder's No Objection on charter-ietf-ohttp-00-00: (with COMMENT)

Vittorio Bertola <vittorio.bertola@open-xchange.com> Fri, 18 June 2021 08:19 UTC

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From: Vittorio Bertola <vittorio.bertola@open-xchange.com>
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Subject: Re: [Ohttp] John Scudder's No Objection on charter-ietf-ohttp-00-00: (with COMMENT)
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> Il 17/06/2021 16:05 John Scudder via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> ha scritto:
> 
> Regarding Robert’s points, I had naïvely read the charter as being clearly for
> "generic oblivious HTTP mechanism to hide clients from servers”, but after
> looking at §3.1 (“applicability”) of draft-thomson-http-oblivious-01, I see his
> point: it does seem as though the author views OHTTP as being a niche, not a
> general, solution. The intended applicability of the work seems worth, at
> minimum, making more explicit in the charter, and again seems like it supports
> the idea of having a BOF where it can be discussed.

I have a general, possibly naive question. Does a niche applicability statement really exempt us from a discussion on how the new mechanism, once standardized, could be used outside of that niche and how it would then impact the Internet in general?

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