Re: Meeting straw poll

[Sheer El-Showk <sheer@saraf.com>]

> Towards the end of the meeting at the 51st IETF there was a straw poll
> held.  I wanted to allow those not present to voice responses.
>
> First, I asked for a show of hands of implementors.  Not that this is a
> decision point, if you are building an implementation and don't mind doing
> so, please mention this to the chairs - not that we are going to do
> anything with the data.

I've been involved (and still am) with implementations of various kinds --
using and writings APIs and supporting associated registrar-registry
rulesets.

>
> (I suppose I should set forth a data collection policy ;) - the data is
> simply to give an indication of the number of efforts.  We won't be
> reselling the contact information. ;))
>
> Second, and this is a decision point.  If members want to delay an answer
> until the minutes are available, this is understandable.
>
> 1) Are you "loyal" to EPP?
> 2) Are you "loyal" to XRP?
> 3) Do you want just one to be defined?  IOW, you'll be dealing with so many
> folks, you can't afford to have two dissimilar systems.
>
> I don't want to know if EPP is better or worse than XRP.  I just want to
> gauge what the group needs to settle upon.
>

I havn't, in all fairness, studied XRP enough, but the fact that it relies
on beep as the session layer makes it a poor candidate for me (I don't
think we can adopt a protcol that only supports beep).  Thus I'm probably
for #1 -- sorry Eric ;->


> BTW, the largest bloc of hands was for #3 during the meeting.
>
> This poll is not intended to kill off ERP and/or XRP, but rather to
> determine if we need to hammer the two into one - as opposed to being
> parallel.
>

I could live with the parrallel but only if they addressed sufficienty
different problem domains, and I havn't purused XRP enough to say.

Regards,
Sheer