[Python-ideas] TAPS Implementation

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:31:36 +1100
Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Hi Max, and welcome!
> 
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 09:47:07PM +0000, Franke, Maximilian Julian Shawn wrote:
> [...]
> > We are currently looking into implementing TAPS, a novel way to offer 
> > transport layer services to the application layer.  
> [...]
> > TAPS is currently being standardized ...
> > Here you can find the proposed architecture ...  
> 
> These are factors which strongly go against TAPS being implemented in 
> the standard library: it is novel and the usage of it is unproven, and 
> it hasn't been standardized yet.

I agree that TAPS doesn't look proven at all (I would also add that
I'm a bit skeptical it will achieve the stated goals -- but we'll
see).  IMO it's not a good candidate for standard library inclusion.

Regards

Antoine.