On February 11 and 12
Google hosted the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Application Area Architecture
Workshop. This was a chance for people active in the IETF Applications Area
to get together and work on architectural issues, topics that span many specific groups in the
Applications area.
The Applications Area is the part of the IETF that
deals with applications
"...that is, things that are not security
(part of the security area), nor networks (most of the other areas), but rather things that
use the networks and security services to provide things of benefit to the end-user."
"These should be a
few pages of text on some topic related to Applications area architectural issues. Since the
group of attendees is expected to span HTTP and AtomPub, email, IM, calendaring, directories
and more, issues should be of interest to more than one of these groups. Some existing
Applications architecture "modules" that already are reused include SASL, URLs, MIME types,
XML and XML schemas and namespaces, HTTP as a substrate, TLS, ABNF, BEEP."
We had around 20 attendees and the breakout sessions ranged over all
the topics listed above and many more. There were two days of great conversation and everyone
had a good time.
"Thank you for the high quality hosting and
convenience of location and food!"
