Re: HTTbis spec size, was: Rechartering HTTPbis

2012/2/5 Henrik Nordström <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>:
>
> - Definition of required transport properties/interface for HTTP message
> exchanges.
>
> - Definition of suitable transports ontop of TCP, TLS, UDP, DTLS, SCTP.
> Each separate, mapping the requirements of the above. Completely
> ignorant of any semanitcs of HTTP beyond the most basic structure.
>


So, two of the transports you list above (UDP and DTLS) are unreliable; is
reliability not a transport property you expect for HTTP message exchanges?

Of course you can build reliability on top of unreliable transports,
but that seems
to go against the idea of clean layering (since it is usually the app
the recreates
the reliability).  Can you provide some clarification of your thinking here?

regards,

Ted

Received on Monday, 6 February 2012 20:07:49 UTC