Acknowledgements

The primary contributers to the X11 protocol are:

• Dave Carver (Digital HPW)

• Branko Gerovac (Digital HPW)

• Jim Gettys (MIT/Project Athena, Digital)

• Phil Karlton (Digital WSL)

• Scott McGregor (Digital SSG)

• Ram Rao (Digital UEG)

• David Rosenthal (Sun)

• Dave Winchell (Digital UEG)

The implementors of initial server who provided useful input are:

• Susan Angebranndt (Digital)

• Raymond Drewry (Digital)

• Todd Newman (Digital)

The invited reviewers who provided useful input are:

• Andrew Cherenson (Berkeley)

• Burns Fisher (Digital)

• Dan Garfinkel (HP)

• Leo Hourvitz (Next)

• Brock Krizan (HP)

• David Laidlaw (Stellar)

• Dave Mellinger (Interleaf)

• Ron Newman (MIT)

• John Ousterhout (Berkeley)

• Andrew Palay (ITC CMU)

• Ralph Swick (MIT)

• Craig Taylor (Sun)

• Jeffery Vroom (Stellar)

Thanks go to Al Mento of Digital's UEG Documentation Group for formatting this document.

This document does not attempt to provide the rationale or pragmatics required to fully understand the protocol or to place it in perspective within a complete system.

The protocol contains many management mechanisms that are not intended for normal applications. Not all mechanisms are needed to build a particular user interface. It is important to keep in mind that the protocol is intended to provide mechanism, not policy.

Robert W. Scheifler

X Consortium, Inc.