Re: Sending priority from a server

On 2014–07–12, at 11:40 AM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think that there is a misunderstanding.  Whenever you have
> both "you should do X" and "I'm doing X" conflated as this does,
> negotiation is a naturally emergent property.  So you get a push and
> the server says that it is p3, but you want it to be p7, what happens
> is a negotiation, no matter how hard you say it isn't.

Right. Resultant negotiation may be an emergent property from a larger prioritization system, for example if a client is going to negotiate anyway, then knowing the original nominal priority may be useful.

However, there should never be "if ( push_frame.priority ) negotiate();".