- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:17:21 +0000
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, "<ietf-http-wg@w3.org> Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Can I ask a really fundamental question: How long do we expect HTTP/2.0 to last ? It sounds a lot to me like people are busy trying to solve the last remaining problems with yesterdays HTTP/1.1, rather than trying to build a solid foundation for the next 10-ish years of HTTP. If you look at what various labs are churning out of wired/optical/wireless technologies, five years from now, we'll be talking a quite different environment than now, with respect to bandwidth, RTT and spikiness. 10 years from now, something big will happen, and the big news-sites will be expected to deliver 1Tbit/sec sustained while everybody and his goat follows the news in real time. Ask cnn.com what 9/11 felt like, and move it up three orders of magnitude or more. None of the proposals we have seen so far is anywhere near being feasible in such a context. We simply have to do something about stuff like the convoluted and expensive generation and parsing of Date: headers. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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