- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:36:28 +0100
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Gabriel Montenegro <gabriel.montenegro@microsoft.com>
On 2014-03-21 15:26, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > I am of the opinion that HTTP/2's success will be determined by > what it eliminates from the HTTP-mess, rather than what it adds to it. > > This topic/discussion is a very good example why I think so. > > We can focus om making HTTP/2 simpler to implement correctly, by > choosing a simple and unambiguous rule, probably "URI's are UTF-8" > or we can add another tortured heuristic resolution flow-chart, which > attempts to guess what people though they understood when they read > the unclear description of all the point-less options in the standard. > > What happened to the KISS principle ? It died when we agreed that we want to be able to gateway between 1.* and 2.*, and not ever break existing semantics. Essentially, HTTP/2 is only a new wire format, and it inherits all legacy not related to the wire format from 1.1. Best regards, Julian
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