Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART review for draft-ietf-xmpp-websocket-07

"Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <[email protected]> Wed, 9 Jul 2014 14:45:13 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.xmpp,gmane.ietf.gen-art
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wfm

Thanks and Regards,

Dan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Saint-Andre [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 5:39 PM
> To: Romascanu, Dan (Dan); Richard Barnes; Dave Cridland
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Jari
> Arkko; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [xmpp] [Gen-art] Gen-ART review for draft-ietf-xmpp-
> websocket-07
> 
> On 7/9/14, 7:16 AM, Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote:
> > OK, I accept this, but in this case the text in the I-D should
> > probably be worded slightly different:
> >
> >  > > The WebSocket XMPP sub-protocol deviates from the standard
> method
> > of
> >
> >  > >    constructing and using XML streams as defined in [RFC6120] by
> >
> >  > >    adopting the message framing provided by WebSocket to delineate
> the
> >
> >  > >    stream open and close headers, stanzas, and other top-level stream
> >
> >  > >    elements.
> >
> > 'deviates' IMO suggests a change to the base specification, not just
> > an optional new binding.
> 
> How about this:
> 
> OLD
>     The WebSocket XMPP sub-protocol deviates from the standard method of
>     constructing and using XML streams as defined in [RFC6120] by
>     adopting the message framing provided by WebSocket to delineate the
>     stream open and close headers, stanzas, and other top-level stream
>     elements.
> 
> NEW
>     The framing method for the binding of XMPP to WebSocket differs
>     from the framing method for the TCP binding as defined in [RFC6120];
>     in particular, the WebSocket binding adopts the message framing
>     provided by WebSocket to delineate the stream open and close
>     headers, stanzas, and other top-level stream elements.
> 
> Peter