RE: Finding consensus on alt-svc, was: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-httpbis-alt-svc as a normative reference in http/2

On 2014-03-20 20:14, Gabriel Montenegro wrote:
>> In case of (a) (which is what IMHO the current authors of these specs
>> prefer), HTTP/2 will normatively reference the alt-svc draft. In case of
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> Disagree. Just like HTTP/s does not reference normatively the PUSH strategies document nor the flow control algorithms documents. That's a good thing, since those documents don't exist.

...and because HTTP/2 is self-contained with respect to that.

>> (b), all "users" of the alt-cvs framework will need a normative
>> reference to the HTTP/2 spec, which looks weird to me.#
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> That seems like backwards layering.
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> The "users" of the alt-svc framework would need a normative reference to the alt-svc framework, which in turn can point at HTTP/2.

Hm, that just adds one indirection, but the problem is the same. To 
leverage alternate services, you'd always have a normative reference 
(indirectly) to HTTP/2. Why would that be a good thing?

Best regards, Julian

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