On 21 okt 2009, at 22:23, Chris Adams wrote:
What we need is a thing that gives us what we need to connect to the network (addresses, DNS servers) and then a pointer in the form of an HTTP or HTTPS URL for all other configuration.
You want to invent yet _another_ form of configuration management?
Short answer: no, life is too short and I have other problems that need solving.
Long answer: what we have now is a mess, if we want to clean up the mess we have to get it right, and putting new options in binary protocols is not right in any way, shape or form.
