Re: [SAM] draft-kolberg-sam-baseline-protocol-00

[Gustavo Carneiro <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Dr Mario Kolberg <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Dear Gustavo,
>
> many thanks for your comments.
>
>
>  Another not so clear item is how the API in Sec. 5 articulates with Sec.
>> 6.  Sec.6 starts like this:
>>
>>    In this document we define messages for hybrid overlay multicast
>>    tree creation...
>>
>>
>> I get the feeling this used to be a separate draft that was converted to a
>> section of another draft.  I suppose that the Protocol described is
>> triggered by API calls of the Sec. 5 API, but I get the feeling I am
>> guessing what should be explicitly stated in the document.  In that sense,
>> draft-waehlisch-sam-common-api-02 (Fig. 2) is clearer.
>>
>
> Yes section 5 is the API to the application, whereas section 6 describes
> the API between nodes. And yes this draft is based on a number of previous
> drafts. The aim is to align them and to form a base document for the WG. I
> accept there is still some work to be done.
>

OK, that is understandable in the first versions.

Still I was wondering if the plan is for the sam-common-api will continue to
evolve alongside sam-baseline-protocol, or whether it will be merged
into sam-baseline-protocol.

Many thanks for your answers (Matthias as well).

Regards,

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, UTM, WiN, http://win.inescporto.pt/gjc
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert