Re: [ICANN-EU] Re: University Based Indepedent Discussion Board

["Griffini Giorgio" <grigio@mediapoint.it>]

Dear Lutz and Andreas:

it was known very early that HTTP protocol is not suited to handle 
connection-oriented sessions. The most interesting fact is that none of 
the generally available browser maker did something to fix this discrepancy.
There were busy to battle on 'bell and whistles' features of their own product 
instead of join to promote an efficient and technical well suited way to have 
'sessions' instead of 'transactions'.  I do not question the value of 'transaction' 
paradigm and how it it best suit the high volumes of data exchange respect 
to the 'session' one. I just want to tell the the HTTP protocol is currently 
overloaded with a task which is not suited for and cookies,hidden form fields, 
java applets are all sort of workaround to get "session" functionality over it.
Due the large amount of programs being ported to intranet/internet 
technologies this will be (and currently is) the future issue. Actually there are 
few technical suited open alternatives (Telnet or X-windows for example) but 
they aree too heavvy or lacks tha ability to handle all the "bell and whistles" 
concern in order to the have wide acceptance needed to help a technology to 
spread fast. 
Coming back to the cookies issue, I would just tell that any solution based 
heavvily on a "work-around" is by itself sub-optimal and poses some 
concerns which may range from security,privacy,usability one.
IMHO cookies are not so dangerous and about their use I'm mostly not 
disappointed by their use on keeping track of a session context but instead 
when they are used when there is really no technical need for.

Best Regards
Giorgio Griffini