Re: Connection limits, was: Straw-man for our next charter

On 31.07.2012 22:19, Mike Belshe wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de
> <mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de>> wrote:
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>     On 31.07.2012 06 <tel:31.07.2012%2006>:04, Mike Belshe wrote:
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>         On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Larry Masinter
>         <masinter@adobe.com <mailto:masinter@adobe.com>
>         <mailto:masinter@adobe.com <mailto:masinter@adobe.com>>> wrote:
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>              Your post is consistent with the assertion that there isn't
>              agreement yet about what "faster than HTTP/1.1" means, or
>         how to
>              compare proposals for improvement. And neither measured
>         worst case
>              latency or real network traffic with buffer bloat, or
>         situations
>              that would detect the impact of HOL blocking.
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>         While SPDY leaves a tiny HOL issue, it fixes the massive one from
>         HTTP/1.1, which can only load a couple of resources in parallel per
>         domain (2 by spec, 6 by implementation best practices).  The
>         tradeoff
>         turns out to be a boon in terms of reduced latency while also using
>         fewer network resources.
>         ...
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>     "By spec" in RFC 2616, but not in HTTPbis (this has been fixed a
>     LONG time ago!).
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> Alright :-)  spec fine, but still a practical issue in all major browser
> implementations today.

It's not a spec problem anymore, it's an implementation problem. Adding 
a new spec doesn't solve *that* problem.

Best regards, Julian

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