Subject: Draft ECML BoF Minutes

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:03:41 -0500

The ECML BoF was held Wednesday afternoon at the Washington
DC IETF Meeting and lasted about 50 minutes.  Donald
Eastlake, the chair, presented some slides. (attached)

There was discussion as to where, if anywhere, ECML should go
in the IETF. Possibilities for it included the W3C, the IETF
TRADE working group or a new IETF working group.

In favor of going to the W3C is that ECML is more field
oriented and less of an interactive protocol in its present
form.  So just as the W3C does HTML while the IETF does
HTTP, it might be a reasonable way to go.

In favor of going with the IETF in general is that ECML is
similar to vCard and, in some ways, the presence protocol
fields being defined.

In favor of going with the TRADE working group in the IETF
is that ECML is useful in determining if IOTP (Internet Open
Trading Protocol, the main work item of the TRADE WG) is
available and that the TRADE working group is the most
eCommerce oriented working group in the IETF.  In addition,
there are similar fields in IOTP.

A poll of those willing to indicated a preference showed 3
did not want it in the IETF, 14 wanted it in the TRADE WG,
and 5 wanted it in the IETF in a different WG.  A separate
poll indicated that 6 people in the audience were willing
to work actively on ECML version 2.

The consensus was to bring the topic up again at the later
TRADE WG meeting and go for making it a TRADE WG work item if
the TRADE WG was agreeable.

Donald Eastlake 3rd
(See attached file: ECMLagenda.ppt)
Donald E. Eastlake, 3rd
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