Re: [Stackevo] [IAB] Updates to draft-iab-protocol-transitions

[Eliot Lear <[e-mail]>]

On 2/22/17 7:32 AM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> This doesn't seem like a unique problem, even though the numbers are
> bigger along certain dimensions.  For better or worse, we shackle
> ourselves to the fates of protocols when we decide to use them.  Just
> as the vendor of the device needs to choose a CPU supplier, we
> collectively have to choose the right(?) protocol.

Absolutely.  But what's interesting about this case was the engineering
and economic drive for reuse of HTTP (a *result* of wild success) and
the disruptive impact CoAP is having. 

> CoAP has a lot of positives, but then so does HTTP.  Both stacks might
> also serve other purposes in more capable devices.  I personally don't
> know how to make that decision and am glad that I don't have to.
> That's why they pay you the big bucks, I guess.

Indeed.  We file it under "best laid plans of mice and men", and
probably sort it through SKUs in the medium term.

Eliot