Re: HTTP router point-of-view concerns

In message <2B5A5C13-3012-46E5-9841-FDEC66614626@checkpoint.com>, Yoav Nir writ
es:

>Better, but requires a lot of work to deploy. This runs the risk of repeating
>ng the IPv6 experience. We make it too different, and people will not want 
>to deploy it.

Uhm no.

The "IPv6 experience" is defining a new protocol which offers no
tangible benefits for anybody, and comes with a lot of transistion
headaches.

That's where we are with the current HTTP/2.0 draft.

If IPv6 had addressed one of the major needs, for instance multihoming
without BGP (ie: Anycast), people would have jumped on it, but all
the things people wanted threatned the big ISP monopolies, so those
"unnecessary features" were killed due to "lack of consensus".

If HTTP/2.0 offers something people actually want, they will swich,
if all it offers is "more of the same, only slightly different" they
will not.

Solving the EU/Cookie privacy issue and saving bandwidth at the
same time, would be a desirable feature.

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Received on Saturday, 13 July 2013 22:25:06 UTC