On May 27, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
NB: I hate SASL's use of the word "protocol" to mean "something
built on top of SASL", for which the word "application" would be
much more useful. One of the reasons I hate it is that it means that
about 50% of the audience gets confused when I use the word
"protocol" in its usual sense, as I do in this document.
The problem with "application" is that it often used, as Nico used it in
this thread, to refer to a component of an implementation as opposed
what's happening on wire within a particular layer of the protocol stack.