Re: Fw: New Version Notification for draft-bishop-http2-extension-frames-01.txt

+1... many times over.

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Mike Bishop
<Michael.Bishop@microsoft.com> wrote:
> When we decided in Zurich to foreclose the option to extend HTTP/2, we
> thought that we were close to done with the basic protocol.  And it’s true
> -- the fundamentals of HTTP/2 haven’t changed all that much since then.  But
> various cases keep coming up where certain parties need to add one more
> feature.  While these aren’t core to the HTTP/2 protocol, they’re also not
> worth versioning the protocol for later, and so we’ve added them to the spec
> for experimentation as optional components.
>
> This draft proposes that many of these would be perfectly valid use-cases
> for extensions, and that we might make progress more quickly if we add a
> simple extension model.  I believe that the time we take in getting the
> extension model right will be more than offset by the ability to unblock the
> protocol and still handle new situations as they arise, even though we’re
> late in the process.
>
> I want to emphasize that the goal of the extension model is simplicity in
> the core protocol, and I’d welcome feedback on how to simplify it further.
>
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> From: internet-drafts@ietf.org
> Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎May‎ ‎22‎, ‎2014 ‎10‎:‎24‎ ‎AM
> To: Mike Bishop, Mike Bishop
>
>
> A new version of I-D, draft-bishop-http2-extension-frames-01.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Mike Bishop and posted to the
> IETF repository.
>
> Name:  draft-bishop-http2-extension-frames
> Revision: 01
> Title:  Extension Frames in HTTP/2
> Document date: 2014-05-22
> Group:  Individual Submission
> Pages:  18
> URL:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bishop-http2-extension-frames-01.txt
> Status:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bishop-http2-extension-frames/
> Htmlized:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bishop-http2-extension-frames-01
> Diff:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-bishop-http2-extension-frames-01
>
> Abstract:
>    This document describes a proposed modification to the HTTP/2
>    specification to better support the creation of extensions without
>    the need to version the core protocol or invoke additional protocol
>    identifiers.
>
>
>
>
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Received on Thursday, 22 May 2014 17:42:32 UTC