[8748] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
session IDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Robbins)
Wed Jul 26 23:15:34 1995
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 23:10:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Robbins <rrobbins@gdb.org>
Reply-To: Robert Robbins <rrobbins@gdb.org>
To: WWW-Talk <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
Cc: Robert Robbins <rrobbins@gdb.org>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Wed, 26 Jul 95 22:52:57 EDT, www-talk-request@w3.org wrote..
> In short, failing to endorse a session-id proposal won't save the Net
> from the problems of having session ID's --- rather, it will force
> people to create forms of session-id which you can't regulate, as
> such, because at the protocol level it's pretending to be something
> diafferent.
This is one of the most cogent points made in this debate. Market
pressures demand session-IDs, both for maintaintianing states and for user
tracking. Either session-ID capability will be implemented sensibly or it
won't, but in no case will its emergence be prevented...
