- From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 20:07:30 +0100
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 05 Dec 2013, at 19:00, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote: > If it turns out to be compatible, then we'll work something out. > > [..] Plotting out a path for compatible > changes doesn't really add value. That said, feel free to propose > something. Clearly, if we already knew what needs to be changed, we’d do it now. So this is preparing for the unknown. I don’t agree that spending a few cycles on thinking about this would not add value. However, it also seems to me that SETTINGS already provides a good way forward for this kind of smooth evolution. If people share the gut feeling that that’s true, the needed cycles may already have been spent. The more important thing is actually agreeing that ALPN labels are cheap and this is indeed the way forward for changes that go beyond what can be done with a SETTINGS-like mechanism. I.e., we assume HTTP/2.x will always be carried in something that provides out-of-band negotiation (and something extra would need to be done for, say, the port 100 idea). Grüße, Carsten
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