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... To begin, we figured that our requirements, while a little more
stringent than most, could fit inside a framework suitable for a
large number of future application protocols. The trick is to avoid
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... file
transfer, remote shell, and the world-wide web. So, the bet we are
placing in going forward is that there will continue to be reasons
for defining protocols that fit within our framework.
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... 17] (the Simple Authentication and Security Layer)
was developed to provide a framework for authenticating protocol
peers. SASL let's you describe how an authentication mechanism ...
... extensibility. For example, although SMTP initially didn't have an
extension framework, it was only after ten years of experience that
its excellent design was altered. In contrast, a poorly-designed
protocol such as Telnet ...
... The BXXP Framework ...
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We defined an application protocol framework called BXXP (the Blocks
eXtensible eXchange Protocol). The reason it's a "framework" instead
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... application protocol framework called BXXP (the Blocks
eXtensible eXchange Protocol). The reason it's a "framework" instead
of an application protocol is that we provide all the mechanisms
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... intra-application streams is worth it. (Besides, our belief is that
few application implementors will actually code the BXXP framework
directly -- rather, we expect them to use third-party packages that
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... authorization.
Naming was excluded from the framework because, outside of URIs,
there isn't a commonly accepted framework ...
... framework because, outside of URIs,
there isn't a commonly accepted framework for naming things. To our
view, this remains a domain-specific problem for each application
protocol ...
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Similarly, authorization was explicitly excluded from the framework.
Every approach to authorization we've seen uses names to identify
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... principals (i.e., targets and subjects), so if a framework doesn't
include naming, it can't very well include authorization.
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... From Framework to Protocol ...