Re: something I don't get about the current plan...

On 2013-11-17 23:12, Mike Belshe wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Stephen Farrell
> <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie <mailto:stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>> wrote:
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>     On 11/17/2013 04:53 PM, Mike Belshe wrote:
>      > OK - I see.
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>      > I think you're mixing current stats (only 30% of sites today have
>     certs -
>      > seems high?) with incompatibilities - 100% of sites can get certs
>     today if
>      > they want them.  So HTTP/2 requiring certs would not be
>     introducing any
>      > technical incompatibility (like running on port 100 would).
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>     But 100% of firewalls could open port 100 too.
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> We measured this inside Google - its not 100% - but it was pretty good.
>   Maybe WillChan has those numbers.
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>     And saying 100% of sites could get certs ignores the reality
>     that they do not and nobody so far seems to have a plan to
>     increase the 30%.
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> I'm not understanding why they can't get certs?
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> Do you mean they really can't, or that they just don't want to or
> believe its too painful?

There'll always be edge cases like the home router that requires initial 
config to even connect to the internet.

If we don't have a plan for using HTTP/2.0 to connect to these devices, 
then we're not really replacing 1.1. (Reminder: the charter expects us 
to do that).

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Best regards, Julian

Received on Sunday, 17 November 2013 22:28:37 UTC