Re: bohe and delta experimentation... from Martin Thomson on 2013-01-17 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2013)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:18:39 -0800
To: Patrick McManus <pmcmanus@mozilla.com>
Cc: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnXz9M3_zW=WAK2UCoLpkTj1r+WzECygfq6=Pc-VNgoo3Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 16 January 2013 17:13, Patrick McManus <pmcmanus@mozilla.com> wrote:
> I'd actually like the timestamp format to support sub millisecond
> timescales.. (maybe another 8 bits) to help http scale in both directions.

There have been times when I have wanted better-than-second resolution
on HTTP dates.  I'm not sure that nanosecond resolution is really
necessary, but I'm not fundamentally opposed to the idea.

Received on Thursday, 17 January 2013 01:19:06 UTC