Re: Large Frames, Continuations, Flow Control, and changing HPACK

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com> wrote:

> To be clear, the proposal is:
>
> 1) Remove the reference set from HPACK (use "Linear-H")
>

+1; Kazu's data convinces me entirely.


> 2) Increase the frame size to 16-bits
>

+1 to increase the size.  I would support going larger; the artificial
limits never provided value in SPDY nor H2.  I liked Greg's proposal
generally.


> 3) Allow interleaving of HEADERS frames
> 4) Remove the "\0" separator hack.
>

+1; these were hacks unresolved due to the global compressor.


>
> Coupling this with my earlier proposal to add a "SYN_STREAM" header
> would also allow us to:
>
> 5) Remove CONTINUATION frames entirely
>

+1; this makes things much simpler.


> 6) Move END_* flags to the last HEADERS frame
>

+1; makes things simpler.


> 7) Flow control HEADERS frames
>

+1;  this is just simpler too.

Mike