- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:08:40 +0000
- To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
- cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
In message <CAMm+LwjUD4z4tjzSdMCOOFvOiYQD6y1mLQ1effK5w7KFDH6g_A@mail.gmail.com> , Phillip Hallam-Baker writes: >> Provided, and this is a very big variable, that HTTP/2 brings enough >> benefits to pay for the purple internet. >> >> IPv6 should have taught everybody, that just because the IETF is >> in party mode, doesn't mean that wallets fly out of pockets. > >IPv6 tried a different approach. The major mistake with IPv6 was to not deliver any improvement worth the hazzle of migrating to the new protocol. HTTP/2.0 could easily, even trivially, fall prey to the same problem, in particular if the complexity of implementing HTTP/2.0 is too high relative to HTTP/1.1. -- 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.
Received on Tuesday, 21 August 2012 14:09:08 UTC