Re: [Taps] On Profiles for TAPS Preconnections

Michael Welzl <michawe@ifi.uio.no> Tue, 23 July 2019 14:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Taps] On Profiles for TAPS Preconnections
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> On Jul 23, 2019, at 9:51 AM, Max Franke <mfranke@inet.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
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> The API prescribed by this document is abstract, and needs to give freedom to implementations to make things elegant in their particular languages.
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> What about having an appending, that's non-normative and not required for RFC compliance, that describes suggested conveniences, such as "properties.prefer()" and the concept of convenience profiles?
> Yes, I like this idea. I also agree that the API is complex enough as it is and requiring convenience features to be RFC compliant is probably not a good idea. As long as we are consistent with moving all conveniences to the appendix this is my preferred option.

+1 on this if it’s a workable solution (sounds like it is), and a particular +1 on the side comment about "consistently moving all conveniences to the appendix”

Cheers,
Michael