Re: I-D Action:draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-01.txt

james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com> Tue, 09 June 2009 17:43 UTC

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On Jun 9, 2009, at 05:28, Dave Cridland wrote:
>
> To be fair:
>
> a) This one is *just* a poorly written draft [...].

...as an individual contribution,
...in the Informational category.

> b) Apple are, at least, producing a public specification in a  
> reasonable forum for discussion.

Moreover, Mr. Pantos chose IETF rather than some slushpile with looser  
editorial standards.  We should be happy when a company as secretive  
as Apple allows their employees to submit drafts to us, even--  
especially-- when the manuscripts that land in our slushpile are not  
yet ready for immediate publication.

If IETF doesn't think the information in this draft is worth compiling  
into a document worthy of sending to the RFC Editor, then that would  
be good for Mr. Pantos to know.  It would probably save him a lot of  
effort and frustration.  I'm sure he looks forward to whatever  
constructive feedback IETF participants can provide, and I can assure  
everyone here that nobody at Apple feels their employment status  
entitles them to any special consideration for their individual  
contributions.


--
james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>
member of technical staff, communications engineering