At 6:16 PM -0500 11/28/06, Robert Sayre wrote:
On 11/28/06, Rogers Cadenhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have no idea how to gauge the
likelihood they'll achieve it. Or whether they'll
respect current autodiscovery functionality in MSIE 7
and Firefox 2.0.
My experience is that the IETF is essentially unresponsive to backward
compatibility concerns,
The IETF has been very good with this on some protocols, and bad on
others. Even if a major vendor has deployed something, if it is
technically broken or limited, the IETF will generally ignore it. If
the protocol is just acceptable, we will spend a huge amount of time
trying to decide between "good enough" and "replace it", usually with
silly results.
to the extent that they will debate the
meaning of the term "MUST". It's like existential poetry.
+1
