- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:51:52 +0100
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- 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>
On 2014-03-21 15:41, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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. We can't do that as sticking with 1.* implies a compatible wire format. > 2. Start working on a real HTTP/2.0 protocol, which tries to solve > the actual problems with HTTP/1.x This definitively comes too late for 2.0, but I agree that future work should try to solve problems inherited from 1.*. Best regards, Julian
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