Re: RFC 7168 on The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA)

[Janet P Gunn <jgunn6@xxxxxxx>]

The teamaker that sits on my desk at work allows me to select from 4 different
temperature settings ( appropriate for black tea, herbal tea, green tea,
and white tea).  It also allows me to select the number of minutes
to brew the tea.

I would expect the tea making protocol
to allow for "water temperature" and "brewing time"
parameters.

Furthermore, brewing time is a much
better metric for tea strength than opacity.  One of the best known
"teas"  sold in the US is well known to have been designed
for speed in reaching a dark color, without regard for strength.

Stewed tea is tea which has been brewed
too long.  Tea which has been  kept warm for a long time, but
with the tea leaves removed after the proper brewing time, is not "stewed".
 It may be stale, but not stewed.

Some people actually LIKE stewed tea
(usually with lots of sugar), so an extended brewing time should be an
option.

Janet


"ietf" <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx> wrote
on 04/03/2014 07:29:37 PM:

> From: Randall Gellens <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Elwyn Davies <elwynd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Andrew G. Malis" 
> <agmalis@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: IETF Discussion <ietf@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: 04/03/2014 07:32 PM
> Subject: Re: RFC 7168 on The Hyper Text Coffee
Pot Control Protocol 
> for Tea  Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA)
> Sent by: "ietf" <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> At 12:37 AM +0100 4/2/14, Elwyn Davies wrote:
> 
> >  We also need the internationalized version to cater for
all those
> >  excellent varieties of China Tea.  A nice drop of
pu-erh perhaps?
> 
> I stopped reading when I saw that there was no provision for handling
> more delicate teas, just as Japanese sencha or gyokuro, which require
> significantly cooler water and shorter brewing times.  I'm not
sure 
> I'd characterize this as a question of internationalization, since
it 
> involves fundamental protocol elements and operation rather than user
> display text.
> 
> -- 
> Randall Gellens
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