- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:45:50 -0800
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Cc: patrick mcmanus <pmcmanus@mozilla.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Please, if you have an opinion, state it once and be satisfied that it has been heard and archived in the usual place. It does not need to be repeated over and over again. If you have a better design solution, then propose it as a separate draft. There's nothing I'd like better than a number of open proposals and a bake-off to see which one is better (or which ones are better, if that depends on context or traffic styles). For example, waka is a tokenized protocol for the exact reasons that you describe, and it is specifically designed to speed intermediate processing. Unfortunately, having no end of potential syntaxes to choose from means I keep changing my mind as to which one to choose. So I have nothing to show for it, aside from a ten year old presentation and a lot of burned out neurons. I should have written a draft instead. Maybe that will happen after HTTPbis is complete. Maybe I'll go sane instead. It takes a lot of time to put together a decent Internet Draft, but it can clarify your thoughts and expose some incomplete considerations. I encourage anyone who is interested in doing so to give it a try. I can't guarantee that anyone will like your ideas, but it is more effective than arguing design decisions without an alternative at hand. Cheers, Roy T. Fielding <http://roy.gbiv.com/> Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems <http://adobe.com/enterprise>
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