Re: Call for Consensus: Frame size (to address #553)

what's the purpose of reserving the bits.

If you have a setting you must use to advertise the ability to receive
more than 16k the extra reserved bits are pointless. At this point
just use a 31-bit length field.

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Jason Greene <jason.greene@redhat.com> wrote:
> +1
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> On Jul 12, 2014, at 1:46 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
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>> There has been a lot of discussion over the last two weeks about various proposals to address a number of issues. While we're not at the point where we have consensus to accept any of them wholesale, I do think we can reduce the surface area of the discussion by declaring consensus on the less controversial parts.
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>> So: it appears that we have consensus to address issue #553 by:
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>> * Expanding the frame size field to 24 bits
>> * Reserving additional bits to align
>> * Adding a setting advertising the maximum frame size allowed by the recipient, with a default of 16K octets and a minimum of 256 octets
>>
>> This would address (only) <https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/553>.
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>> Does anyone have a problem with that, or further comments?
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>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/
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> --
> Jason T. Greene
> WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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