Re: [hybi] Comments on draft-loreto-http-bidirectional-01

[Salvatore Loreto <salvatore.loreto at ericsson.com>]

Hi Martin,

sorry to be late on this:

> ==Building an API:
>
> During Lisa's REST presentation yesterday, she noted that APIs aren't often done by the IETF.  Aside from the fact that these were pretty hard, her thesis was that APIs tend to build tight coupling and that they constrain implementations.  Based on this (and the fact that the W3C already does XMLHttpRequest) the API piece can be dropped.
>    
the hint within the draft is not to develop API within IETF, but to 
collaborate with W3C to exchange experiences and see what information 
would be interesting for them expose on their API.

   o  Possible improvements/extensions to XMLHttpRequest (XHR) API
      [W3C.WD-XMLHttpRequest2-20090820] to expose connection-handling
      details (e.g., use of pconns, pipelining, etc.)


/Sal