[OT] Re: #131: Connection limits (proposal)

Mark Nottingham wrote:
> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/131>
> 
> """
> Clients (including proxies) SHOULD limit the number of simultaneous
> connections that they maintain to a given server (including proxies).
> 
> Previous revisions of HTTP gave a specific number of connections as a
> ceiling, but this was found to be impractical for many applications. As
> a result, this specification does not mandate a particular maximum
> number of connections, but instead encourages clients to be conservative
> when opening multiple connections.
> """

It really seems like this is ripe for a Connection: max=# tag recommendation.
Wherein the application can recommend a number of parallel connections that
1) they support and 2) provide optimal user/application experience.  But this
would be out of scope of 2616bis :)