Re: Should SIMPLE be rechartered, replaced, closed, or what?

On Oct 18, 2012, at 6:15 AM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2012/10/16 Ben Campbell <[email protected]>:
>> It seems like there are really at least two things under discussion on the
>> list: SIMPLE/XMPP inter working, and whether work is needed on SIMPLE itself
>> in order to facilitate interoperable implementations.
> 
> Hi Ben, some others as me propose a third vision:
> 
> Trying to revive SIMPLE for open environments (i.e. Internet) is a
> no-go given the complexity of the existing specs. IMHO technical
> details about this realitity have been already given during the last
> mail threads, including the number of lines of high level programming
> code for building all the SIMPLE specs (more than 15000, and the
> result is something non interoperable with any other client or server
> implementation).

How is that different from my second item (above)?

> 
> A new effort 100% from scratch makes more sense for me (just my
> opinion). Regards.

Can you clarify what you mean by "from scratch"? Do you suggest we should start SIMPLE over from a blank slate?

> 
> -- 
> Iñaki Baz Castillo
> <[email protected]>