- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 06:21:55 +0000
- To: Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com>
- cc: Sawood Alam <ibnesayeed@gmail.com>, ietf-http-wg <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- In message <CAH_y2NFnn=hmFd49U0r_bo1ET6xhqsc9zqnRLm+cXa1s1AA4gg@mail.gmail.com> , Greg Wilkins writes: >It was not so much backwards compatibility as enforced forward >compatibility. The WG was chartered to only support HTTP/1 semantics over a >new wire protocol that was aimed at solving a moderately narrow (and poorly >defined) set of protocol abuses and performance issues. > >For better or worse, fixing or enhancing the semantics of the protocol was >out of scope. ... because that's the charter the WG wrote for itself. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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