Hi John,
Looks good. It does not make a judgement on anyone's work. It's inclusive of
everyone's work. IMHO just what we need in 1999. In fact, if we can hash
through this over the next couple of weeks, we might be able to submit
before Orlando (always hopeful).
One item for the time table. How about including the WWW Caching Workshop as
another meeting place? Sure it's right after the March IETF, but a lot of us
will be at both. It's another opportunity for a face to face session.
Barry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Martin [mailto:martin@terena.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 6:51 AM
> To: webrepl@cs.utk.edu
> Subject: Re: BOF at Orlando?
>
>
> Dear wrec(k)ers,
>
> At 8:30 pm +0100 16/11/98, Ingrid Melve wrote:
> >A revised proposal for charter will be circulated shortly.
>
> Since nothing much charter-wise has gone past since Scott's initial draft,
> I have produced a simpler version, trying to take comments into account
> and, most importantly, trying to achieve rough consensus.
>
> NOTE: There is obviously some contention over terminology and
> issues raised
> as a result of the scope-type discussions, e.g. transparency,
> etc. However,
> these are exactly the sort of issues I think the WG itself must resolve -
> should we form one - and it wastes valuable time arguing about these
> beforehand. In other words, I decided to make the charter less
> specific but
> concentrate on concrete deliverables.
>
> So, in short I am proposing that we use the BoF at the Orlando
> IETF to nail
> down exactly what we want to achieve and we agree a charter for
> presentation to the relevant ADs.
>
> The timeline I have proposed is basically to produce the three documents
> that Ingrid, Barry and others mentioned early-mid 1999 and get these into
> the publication schedule of the IESG / RFC editor. For the follow-up I am
> making an assumption that we do, in fact, decide to do work on developing
> protocols for both client-proxy interaction and proxy-proxy interaction
> though I make no assumption about whether these are completely new or
> development / standardization of existing work.
>
> Comments?
>
> John
> --
>
> Web REplication and Caching (WREC)
> ----------------------------------
>
> Chair(s):
> t.b.d.
>
> Applications Area Director(s):
>
> Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
> Patrik Faltstrom <paf@swip.net>
>
> Applications Area Advisor:
>
> t.b.d.
>
> Mailing Lists:
>
> General Discussion: webrepl@cs.utk.edu
> To Subscribe: webrepl-request@cs.utk.edu
> Archive: t.b.d.
>
> Description of Working Group:
>
> The World Wide Web (WWW) employs the HTTP protocol (RFC 2068) between the
> client and server. HTTP makes allowances with respect to intermediate
> infrastructure which may exist between the client and servers, such as
> caching proxies, gateway proxies, and other "servers". Though highly
> desirable and possible in a few implementations, interaction between
> clients and these intermediaries is rarely automatic or optimal and often
> manually
> configured. There is currently no open, supported protocol for client
> configuration.
>
> In many cases, these intermediaries are configured to communicate with
> other intermediaries, (so-called Inter-Cache Communication) and
> there exist
> many different protocols and standards, both proprietary and open, for
> communication between these intermediaries.
>
> The aim of this working group is to review and document current practice
> with regards inter-cache communication and client-cache communication and
> define a framework for a future development of both within the IETF
> framework. The scope of this working group is deliberately limited to
> cache-type intermediaries.
>
> Goals and Milestones:
>
> Jan-99 Form Working Group
> Feb-99 First issue of I-D on Client-Proxy Communication (Informational)
> Feb-99 First issue of I-D on Inter-Cache Communication (Informational)
> Feb-99 First issue of I-D on Operational Requirements for Proxy-Caches
> Mar-99 Meet at Minneapolis IETF
> Apr-99 Final issue of I-D on Client-Proxy Communication
> Apr-99 Final issue of I-D on Inter-Cache Communication
> Apr-99 Final issue of I-D on Operational Requirements for Proxy-Caches
> Jul-99 Submit documents (3) to IESG for publication as RFCs.
> Jul-99 First issue of I-D on Inter-Cache Communication (Protocol
> Development)
> Jul-99 First issue of I-D on Client-Proxy Communication (Protocol
> Development)
> Aug-99 Meet at Oslo IETF
> Oct-99 Second issue of I-D on Inter-Cache Communication (Protocol
> Development)
> Oct-99 Second issue of I-D on Client-Proxy Communication (Protocol
> Development)
> Nov-99 Meet at Washington IETF
>
> Internet-Drafts:
>
> None yet.
>
> Request For Comments:
>
> None yet.
>
> --end
>
>
>
> --
> "The Challenge of Gigabit Networking"
> The TERENA-NORDUnet Networking Conference 1999
> 7-10 June 1999 Lund, Sweden
>
http://www.terena.nl/tnnc/
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