Those of you who track the announcements of IETF Internet-Draft publications may have noticed a “draft-daigle-” document pop out in the flurry last-minute pre-IETF92 documents. (ICYMI, the document is: draft-daigle-AppIdArch-00.txt).
Related to the work I’ve been doing in bolstering the content of “The Attic” of applications identifier technology history, I started to think about a general framework to describe applications identifiers. So many times we’ve been through the same design discussions — it would be nice to capture the state of the art in tradeoffs and design considerations and simply move forward.
Future versions of this or other documents are intended to delve more deeply into questions of design choices, as well as the broader question of applications architectures (which are uniquely tied to identifiers, content, and resolution).
That’s the theory behind the draft. It is an “-00” version, with all the draftiness that implies. My hope is that it will stimulate some discussion and feedback. I’d love to hear your thoughts — comment here, send me an e-mail, or catch me in Dallas at IETF92.