Proposed changes to PLASTIC for 1.0

All of the following changes can be implemented as changes in the Hub without requiring that applications immediately switch to 1.0. Some of the changes are more difficult to implement than others.

Category		API & Infrastructure						Messages					Transport
Change	Do Nothing	Security	Refactor API	Message Ids	Generalise metadata	Drop Synch Messaging	Bootstrap method	Use mtypes	Message annotations	Message params untyped	Message params by name	Message URL params	XMLRPC only	XMLRPC + optional	All optional
Proposer		MarkTaylor	JohnTaylor	MikeFitzpatrick	JohnTaylor	MikeFitzpatrick		MikeFitzpatrick	JohnTaylor	JohnTaylor	MarkTaylor	JohnTaylor
Votes +(for) -(against) blank(neutral)
JohnTaylor	-
MarkTaylor

Do Nothing

A perfectly legitimate point of view!

Security

PLASTIC 0.5 allows applications to spoof each other, and potentially allows unauthorized access to a user's hub (though this can be mitigated