On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 14:14, Dave Cridland <d...@cridland.net> wrote: > On Tue Mar 29 12:28:55 2011, Eric Burger wrote: >> >> Would we not be better off just asking (mandating?) at least one open >> source implementation? That effort would produce a de facto API. > > Unfortunately this doesn't work in practise. > > One of the examples that Sam raised originally concerned TLS, and that has > (at least) three different open-source implementations in library form, all > with fairly different APIs.
"API" has too many meanings. In this case there is the "API" between app and library, and "API" in the sense of a client/server protocol on the net. I've learned a few new meanings of API e.g. from cloud people. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
