Re: [Tools-arch] Recommendation 6: Architectural model for clients

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 20 April 2021 15:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-arch] Recommendation 6: Architectural model for clients
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> If we can't even maintain a 'sophisticated and disciplined software 
> development environment', I have no idea how we're going to make such 
> services available -- especially when the IETF's current services often 
> struggle to be available and performant. Also, the *point* of AWS's 
> services are that they're in the cloud; I still don't have a good answer 
> as to why transforming some XML into HTML needs to be.

I'm now completely confused about what you want us to do.  Assuming we 
agree that we want to have tools that work reliably on the platforms that 
people are likely to use (which seems to be Windows, Mac, and linux) how 
do we get there?

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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