Round 1: Reference libraries - configuration and composition

Frystik Nielsen [W3CReference] presented an overview of the LibWWW reference library, featuring stream and channels, and offering support for plug-ins. The LibWWW is an application-independent light-weight Web API. Lessons learned from a previous version were that APIs should be layered, open-ended and thread-safe. Robert Thau [Configure] stressed the importance of configuration. He discussed some of the configuration options available for the Apache server [Apache]. In particular, configuration through an RPC-like mechanism, or CORBA interface, needs to be studied.