[Ietf-not43] XML-RPC for an information service?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 02:03:06PM -0700,
 Ted Hardie <Ted.Hardie@nominum.com> wrote 
 a message of 595 lines which said:

> > Nice idea, but the requirments specify both things to be done at the
> > protocol level and things to be done only at the implementation level
> > (such as rate-limiting functions).
> > 
> 
> Hmm. If it does suggest something at the implementation level it's a
> doc bug.  The draft is meant to describe how the *service* should work
> and that includes both on-the-wire and off the wire details.

OK, I rephrase it in another way. The current requirments specify
things that have to be done when designing the protocol (i.e. the
drafts on IRIS or IRPI has to specify something that will fit the
requirments) and it also specify things that will have to be done when
actually implementing a service (like rate-limiting functions).

Hence, no protocol proposal (LDAP, IRIS, etc) can actually fulfill 100
% of the requirments.