Re: draft-montenegro-httpbis-uri-encoding

In message <532C4E6C.1070802@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes:

>> What happened to the KISS principle ?
>
>It died when we agreed that we want to be able to gateway between 1.* 
>and 2.*, and not ever break existing semantics.
>
>Essentially, HTTP/2 is only a new wire format, and it inherits all 
>legacy not related to the wire format from 1.1.

Then I'd like to offer two proposals:

1. Rename the current drafts "HTTP/1.2" to indicate that all the
   crap will be the same.

2. Start working on a real HTTP/2.0 protocol, which tries to solve
   the actual problems with HTTP/1.x

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Received on Friday, 21 March 2014 14:42:17 UTC