Quoting [Gary Mazz] (Oct 20 2009):
Hi Andre,
I read Adrian's email in regards to the a tested history of stuffing attributes into http headers. I'm not debating that issue. It does work, or else http wouldn't.
What is not proven and my issue is this is an unproven technology for management applications. We have 2 new items here, a new and unproven management protocol and now a new and unproven networking protocol. Selling one is hard enough when questions like is it proven in a 5-9s environment on a global scale. Adopting both is far too risky for serious enterprise adoption. Believing it can happen, is just unfamiliarity with the market.
Thanks - I think these two paragraphs explain more than your original mail, at least for me. What would you consider a valid proof? What are your thoughts on how the proposed protocol would fail? I am not sure you can answer the second one, really, as you basically state that your are not sure enough it does *not* fail - but maybe you could try to formulate the problem from the other end? Thanks, Andre. -- Nothing is ever easy.