Re: #642: Allowing PRIORITY on streams in any any state. [was: Concerns about HTTP/2 Priority]

This was discussed in the Honolulu meeting; it seemed reasonable to people in the room and there was no objection.

Any last thoughts on the list? Otherwise, I’ll mark as editor-ready so Martin can integrate the pull request.

Cheers,


> On 5 Nov 2014, at 2:28 pm, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
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> There seems to be some support for this, so I've created <https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/642>.
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> As you all know, we need to see substantial support and little (if any) dissent to take this kind of change at this point in the process.
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> Anyone else care to comment?
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> The proposal is:
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>> Make it so that PRIORITY can be sent on a stream in ANY state.
>> i.e., change so that PRIORITY is permitted in the "idle" state.
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> 
> Martin, please start work on a pull so people can take a look.
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> 
>> On 6 Nov 2014, at 2:35 am, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> SGTM-- moving this from unreliable to reliable behavior seems like a definite win for intermediaries, and potentially others.
>> -=R
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>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Ilya Grigorik <igrigorik@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
>> What do other people think about the general idea?
>> 
>> I like it. I think it moves the discussion from "you could bend the protocol to do this assuming you have a cooperating client+server", which is not something we can reasonably rely on as a browser, to a plausible "PRIORITY is allowed on idle stream, treat such streams as 'group anchors'"... i.e. allowing priority on idle stream means servers *must* deal with this case, which makes using and deploying such mechanism much more plausible.
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>> ig
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