At 12:33 PM +0900 11/5/04, Martin Duerst wrote:
- Looking up 'erstwhile' at http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary gives 'former, previous'. Together with Dan Connolly, I'm actually the *current* liaison from the W3C to the IETF.
Yuck. I've been using that word wrong for thirty years. And I've been corrected by a Swiss. :-)
- The statement was not made with my liaison hat on. I'm participating in this WG just for myself. If I ever make a statement as a liaison, I'll say so (but I'd probably talk directly to people in the IAB and the IESG in this case).
Noted.
- I wasn't commenting on the desirability of a generic change to HTTP, but only on where such a change might happen, assuming it was desirable.
Understood.
- This was based on past history and current status of the HTTP spec (an IETF Draft Standard, not a W3C Recommendation), and not on any assumptions one way or another about what the two mentioned parties might want to do.
I'll talk about the general topic this week at the IETF meeting. I'm sure the WebDAV folks can speak to it as well.
You can guess for yourself whether I wrote *this* mail with my liaison hat on (because as a liaison, I have to make sure comments I make are not misunderstood to come from W3C as such) or as an individual (because as an individual, I have to make sure my comments as an individual are understood as such, and correctly). Take your pick :-).
The Swiss are known for their interesting hats....
--Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
