Re: IETF and APIs

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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 14:14, Dave Cridland <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue Mar 29 12:28:55 2011, Eric Burger wrote:
>>
>> Would we not be better off just asking (mandating?) at least one open
>> source implementation?  That effort would produce a de facto API.
>
> Unfortunately this doesn't work in practise.
>
> One of the examples that Sam raised originally concerned TLS, and that has
> (at least) three different open-source implementations in library form, all
> with fairly different APIs.

"API" has too many meanings.  In this case there is the "API" between
app and library, and "API" in the sense of a client/server protocol on
the net.  I've learned a few new meanings of API e.g. from cloud
people.
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