Re: [Sip] INFO and what to do about it?

[Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan at acmepacket.com>]

What was "the work Paul started"?  You mean Eric's draft?

-hadriel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sip-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:sip-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Robert Sparks
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:28 PM
> To: Paul Kyzivat
> Cc: SIP at ietf.org; DOLLY, MARTIN C, ATTLABS
> Subject: Re: [Sip] INFO and what to do about it?
>
> Paul's two points resonate with me.
>
> Does anyone expect that if we _did_ build a usage framework for INFO,
> that we would somehow take the existing uses and retroactively declare
> them standard and part of that framework without change?
>
> If that were possible, what's the difference between that and just
> documenting them as is and declaring them standard without this
> framework.
>
> So I don't see how building this framework will solve the kind of
> problem that Martin was punctation-charactering about.
>
> As Paul points out, creating the framework might provide better
> interoperability for some _new_ use, but the level of effort someone
> would have to go through to get the usage standardized is not going to
> be easier than standardizing it on its own. So having its not going to
> do the person that wants a nifty new feature any real good.
>
> If we had a truckload of things that would use the framework bursting
> at the seams waiting for the framework, we'd all, I'm betting,
> happily work very quickly to create it. I don't see this truckload of
> things.  The existing uses are out there and they're not going to
> change (so far when I've asked folks with features build on INFO if
> they'd change their code to use this framework once it existed,
> they've laughed).
>
> So if we do anything at all, I'd favor finishing the work Paul started.
>
> RjS
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