- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:02:15 +1100
- To: "William A. Rowe Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
- Cc: James Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 24/01/2012, at 4:01 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 1/23/2012 10:50 PM, James Snell wrote: >> The charter should make it absolutely >> clear that the goal is an incremental evolution of HTTP/1.1 rather >> than an opportunity for radical changes. > > Does it make sense, then, to designate this as an HTTP/1.2 exploration, > as opposed to an outright HTTP/2.0 refactoring? Somewhere during the > process, if there were a clear mandate to abandon some aspect[s] of the > HTTP/1.1 spec, then the project could recharter itself to HTTP/2.0 with > that narrow, well defined purpose in doing so. 1.2 would require on-the-wire backwards compatibility with 1.x, which is too constraining. What we really want is *semantic* (not syntactic) compatibility with HTTP as deployed today. Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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