Re: WGLC of draft-ietf-xmpp-websocket-02

Ben Campbell <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Jun 2014 14:54:16 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.xmpp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jun 6, 2014, at 2:50 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 6/6/14, 1:47 PM, Ben Campbell wrote:
>> Sorry for the delay. I just returned from a very disconnected vacation.
>> 
>> On May 27, 2014, at 1:31 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Connection managers are trusted server components, so the administrators of the service are aware that there is a CM in the mix, but the server need not be (all it knows is that sessions have been created and that some trusted entity did so).
>>> 
>>>> Is it assumed to
>>>> implement this draft?
>>> 
>>> The server doesn't really need to implement the websocket aspect of things, since that's handled by the CM.
>>> 
>>>> Are we requiring special behavior of the
>>>> server, without the server knowing it needs to do it?
>>> 
>>> Not as far as I can see.
>> 
>> Is there any reason to mention connection managers at all? Unless I missed something, the draft only mentions them parenthetically, but it does so in a normative statement. It's starting to sound like an implementation detail that doesn't need anything normative, if any mention at all.
> 
> It is in fact an implementation detail.

Strictly as an individual, I then propose we either remove the mention entirely (my preference), or move it to an "implementation note" so that it cannot be conflated with the normative statement it's currently attached to.

But I realize that's pretty pedantic, and  if the authors are tired of making new versions, I can live with it as is :-)

> 
> Peter