Re: Should Web Services be served by a different HTTP n+1?

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013JanMar/0357.html

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Robert Brewer <fumanchu@aminus.org> wrote:
> Roberto Peon wrote:
>> The worst part is the high latency, especially given TCP's
>> current cogestion avoidance implementations-- the total number
>> of round-trips ends up dominating latency, regardless of how
>> much bandwidth one has.
>
> Why is this being addressed by trying to make the messages smaller? Wouldn't following the original architecture of HTTP, which was optimized for fewer, larger messages, also reduce latency?
>
>
> Robert Brewer
> fumanchu@aminus.org

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