Re: GOAWAY -> GTFO

For what it is worth, I share your disappointment about GTFO, but the
change occurred some time ago (although no discussion on list?).  I see no
advantage of GTFO over GOAWAY.

Mike



On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Daniel Sommermann <dcsommer@fb.com> wrote:

> I was surprised by this change. I'm not sure exactly how such editorial
> decisions are arrived at, but I didn't see any discussion on this list
> about the change before it was committed on github.
>
> Taking the change at face value:
>
> 1) "GTFO" is not English or understandable without context.
> 2) "GOAWAY" is composed of english words and is self explanatory.
> 3) This change doesn't fix any problem in the spec. Don't fix what isn't
> broken. In particular, this produces unnecessary churn for implementors,
> documentation updates, etc.
>
> Taking the change as a joking reference to internet culture:
>
> 1) "Fuck" doesn't belong in internet standards, implied or otherwise.
> 2) My protocol cursing at me will get old fast.
> 3) Clearly SYN_STREAM is a better candidate for renaming and should be
> changed to OHAI, which naturally stands for "Opening Headers And
> Initialization."
>
> Is this just a prank?
>
>