Exactly! It is one impressive spec: clean and simple. Looking at its adaptation, I wonder why in the world it was not adapted and done in IETF. On the other hand, it may take too long in IETF, and would require extensive debate over architecture, framework, requirements... ;-) - Ping > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joelja@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:32 AM > To: Tony Finch > Cc: Ping Pan; 'IETF discussion list' > Subject: Re: Deployment Cases > > Tony Finch wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Ping Pan wrote: > >> Another place that needs some serious help is P2P. The lack of > >> standard in those areas has negative impact to their growth. > > > > A lot of people wish that p2p were less successful :-) > > Bittorrent has about as clear a protocol spec as anything > gets. The fact that it hasn't been blessed by an SDO has not > precluded multiple inter-operable implementations. > > > Tony. > > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf