- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:41:31 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- cc: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Gabriel Montenegro <gabriel.montenegro@microsoft.com>
In message <532C4E6C.1070802@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes: >> 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. Then I'd like to offer two proposals: 1. Rename the current drafts "HTTP/1.2" to indicate that all the crap will be the same. 2. Start working on a real HTTP/2.0 protocol, which tries to solve the actual problems with HTTP/1.x -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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