Re: Giving the Framing Layer a real name from Jeff Pinner on 2013-02-28 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2013)

From: Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:53:38 -0800
To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CA+pLO_iJnA-gzHh8qWAtP-mR2Nw1m_XFKTF4JuYoWoOL=JpS9g@mail.gmail.com>

aren't there three layers?

Framing Layer -- frames and their encodings
Session Layer -- stream lifecycle, flow control, shared compression context
Protocol* Layer -- request/response, pushed resources

i prefer tri-color bike sheds :)

*yes, by protocol here i mean the HTTP/1.* request/response protocol

Received on Thursday, 28 February 2013 05:54:06 UTC