Re: Candidate re-charter/new WG

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@akamai.com>]

Interesting point. 

We were thinking application-level web infrastructure, which is confined to
HTTP/URI; this is in the applications area, after all.

That having been said, I don't have a particular objection to the meaning
you propose, as I think it still encompasses what we intended. Ian?



On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 07:27:01PM -0800, Fielding, Roy wrote:
> > Below is a candidate (re)charter to take WREC forward as the "Web 
> > Infrastructure" group (thanks to those who have given input of their 
> > varying types).  As you'll see, the idea is to take on two 
> > work items that 
> > we believe are essential for web infrastructure going forward.
> > 
> > There is some cross over with the invalidation protocol with the CDNP 
> > folks.  ...
> > 
> > Likewise, there is some degree of cross over with the intermediary 
> > discovery protocol. ...
> 
> If that is what you will be working on, please use a name that is
> specific to the work.  Web infrastructure includes IP+TCP+HTTP+URI+DNS
> and a bunch of other things that are out of scope.  I suggest you
> call it the "Web Intermediary" working group, since you are going to
> be talking about interoperability at the application level.  And you
> can still call it WEBI.
> 
> ....Roy

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Mark Nottingham, Research Scientist
Akamai Technologies (San Mateo, CA)