On 9/6/06, Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
HTTP proxies do exist but the only reason that they can work effectively is that the vast majority of web resources are accessible through a common medium - namely the public IPv4 Internet and TCP.
Right. But that is a natural occurrence, not the result of bureaucratic demands for coordination. SMTP doesn't /require/ TCP either, as I'm sure you know. I don't see a correlation between protocol effectiveness and concrete transport protocol dependencies. I also don't see a correlation between mandated "universal" interoperability and protocol effectiveness. Application protocols don't need to specify an entire protocol stack to be successful. -- Robert Sayre _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf