Re: Proposal (I-D) for extending HTTP to support out-of-order responses

> 2 thoughts, the first is just a throw-away:
> 
> 1 - HTTP is stateless. indeed 2616 in its intro describes itself this
>     way.. this is a pretty fundamental change, even as an optional
>     extension.. so the intro should probably discuss it. that's all.

HTTP is stateless in the sense that all of the information needed to
interpret and handle a request is present in that request and not based
on a prior request's leftover state.  A RID doesn't change that in
principle, though it would certainly complicate the implementation
to handle out-of-order responses.  On the server-side, the ability
to have out-of-order responses makes it easier to partition pipelined
requests out to multiple server instances, which is one of the main
reasons why HTTP is stateless.

....Roy