Blocks eXtensible eXchange Protocol (bxxpwg) -------------------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 13-Jun-00 Current Status: Proposed Working Group Chair(s): Keith McCloghrie Applications Area Director(s): Ned Freed Patrik Faltstrom Applications Area Advisor: Ned Freed Mailing Lists: General Discussion:bxxpwg@invisible.net To Subscribe: bxxpwg-request@invisible.net Archive: http://lists.invisible.net/pipermail/bxxpwg/ Description of Working Group: The IETF BXXP working group shall develop a standards-track application protocol framework for connection-oriented, asynchronous request/response interactions. The framework must permit multiplexing of independent request/response streams over a single transport conneciton, supporting both textual and binary messages. The working group shall use BXXP (as described in draft-mrose-blocks-protocol-03) as its starting point. The working group is authorized to make incompatible changes to BXXP providing that it document solid technical reasons for doing so. Goals and Milestones: Jul 00 Prepare updated specification reflecting issues and solutions identified by the working group Aug 00 Discuss and revise Internet-Draft at the Pittsburgh IETF Jan 01 Submit revised specification to the IESG for consideration as a standards-track publication.