The IETF, with only a few exceptions, does not standardize
API's; it generally only works on wire protocols.
- Jim
> Sender: [email protected]
> From: Ed Warnicke <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:23:38 -0500
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [forum] Move X definition to IETF?
> -----
> There has been some comment in this forum about the
> need to split the definition of X ( which used to
> reside with X.org ) from the implementation of
> X ( XFree86.org ). Might it not be a good idea to
> try to move the definition of X over to the IETF?
>
> X is, afterall, a network protocol. The IETF is
> arguably the most successful standards body for
> the definition of network protocols in history.
>
> Also, the IETF is extremely open, which seems to
> be something that X.org lacked, and which folks
> are complaining about in XFree86.
>
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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
[email protected]
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