- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:42:16 +1100
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In London, we agreed to use the Alternative Services approach to satisfy issue #349 (Load Asymmetry). In subsequent discussion at the Design Team Meeting, it seemed like the most reasonable approach to doing this would be to publish the non-HTTP/2 specific parts in a separate draft, while keeping those parts specific to HTTP/2 in the main spec (in particular, the ALTSVC frame). I've just submitted draft -04 of Alternative Services: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-httpbis-alt-svc-04 under consultation with Martin and Patrick. In parallel, I've just made a pull request to add the HTTP/2-specific parts, with appropriate references: https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/pull/439 As discussed, neither of these proposals contains language about HTTP:// over TLS or opportunistic encryption; that discussion is separate. Also as discussed, none of this places any requirement upon a recipient to do anything special for ALTSVC beyond not blowing up when it's encountered. Please have a look at these and raise any concerns you have. The plan is to convert the draft to a WG document, and Julian has graciously agreed to take over its editorship. Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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