On 4/30/2014 10:36 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:
On 4/30/14 3:48 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
(that doesn't preclude the benefit of a liason to a language-standards
group, but we shouldn't be seeing IETF proposals for such instances IMO).
Probably not, but it seems pretty clear that deployment
of some IETF protocols has suffered from either the lack
of a comprehensive API, or crappy API. I'm thinking of
IPSec, newer DNS features, etc. I think it's very much
in the interest of the IETF to have someone around who
can talk to some of the language standards bodies about
how to expose protocol features, how to deal with options,
etc.
Its a good idea, but you have to watch out for a dependency that would
exclude other languages and also platforms out there, especially with
higher level languages, server-side scripting languages. If your
liaison manager is experienced with many languages, that would be a
plus. Its a difficult task to manage a multiple language API for
examples of IETF protocols. But it can be done.
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