Re: associating constant feature sets wi

I agree with Koen, that a generic or transport independent negotiation
protocol may have only  limited value. On the other hand,  I would like to
see a capability negotiation protocol for HTTP. I am not sure whether the
work should be done in this group or the HTTP group.

I thought that "delegation" referred to a mechanism for asking one or more
third parties to provide partial or complete profile information. Partial
profile information from multiple sources could be aggragated in some way
to provide a complete profile. Such a third party might be a cache or proxy
or some other server not normally part of the communication channel. In
the CC/PP paper there was a notion of "indirect references" which were
URLs that named profiles with default values that could be superseded by
a user agent.

I agree with Graham that we can separate most of the issues of naming
and representation of feature sets from "transfer". I am very interested
in an HTTP specific version of the negotiation protocol but I don't have
a strong preference about where the work takes place.

Franklin Reynolds
Nokia Research Center