Re: Call for Adoption: Extensible Prioritization Scheme for HTTP

I echo Ryan's concerns but also strongly support adoption.

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 9:46 AM Ryan Hamilton <rch@google.com> wrote:

> I strongly support the adoption of this work. (I'm skeptical of the
> header-based mechanism for conveying this information, but as you said,
> this discussion can continue in the WG).
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:31 PM Tommy Pauly <tpauly@apple.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello HTTPbis,
>>
>> During our IETF 106 meetings, we received updates from the design team
>> for updating HTTP's priority hinting mechanism, with the goals of defining
>> priorities for HTTP/3 and allowing this scheme to be backported to HTTP/2.
>>
>> The output of the design team is documented in this draft:
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kazuho-httpbis-priority-04
>>
>> This draft defines:
>> - A SETTINGS parameter to disable the HTTP/2 priority mechanism
>> - Two priority values, urgency (0-7), and incremental (boolean)
>> - Mechanisms to communicate these priority values using headers and frames
>>
>> This email begins a call for Working Group adoption of this draft. Note
>> that adoption indicates that we, as a working group, want to
>> use draft-kazuho-httpbis-priority as a basis for the definition of
>> priorities for HTTP/3. There is still ongoing discussion that will
>> continue, specifically around the mechanism for end-to-end and hop-by-hop
>> signaling.
>>
>> This call will end on *Friday, December 6*. Please reply to this email
>> and indicate whether or not you believe we should adopt this document!
>>
>> Best,
>> Tommy & Mark
>>
>