Re: Optimizations vs Functionality vs Architecture

In message <CAMm+LwjUD4z4tjzSdMCOOFvOiYQD6y1mLQ1effK5w7KFDH6g_A@mail.gmail.com>
, Phillip Hallam-Baker writes:

>> Provided, and this is a very big variable, that HTTP/2 brings enough
>> benefits to pay for the purple internet.
>>
>> IPv6 should have taught everybody, that just because the IETF is
>> in party mode, doesn't mean that wallets fly out of pockets.
>
>IPv6 tried a different approach. 

The major mistake with IPv6 was to not deliver any improvement
worth the hazzle of migrating to the new protocol.

HTTP/2.0 could easily, even trivially, fall prey to the same problem,
in particular if the complexity of implementing HTTP/2.0 is too high
relative to HTTP/1.1.

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Received on Tuesday, 21 August 2012 14:09:08 UTC