- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:00:11 +0000
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- cc: "Julian F. Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>
-------- In message <11569FA7-C76D-43FB-A1D8-D19CB933EDCF@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham wri tes: >As we discussed (but for the benefit of everyone else) -- we've already >talked about this extensively, and came to consensus that making such a >change would be more likely to cause problems, without making a material >improvement in the protocol. > >This is even more true at this extremely late stage. I disagree. This is a protocol which aims to take over 30% of the traffic on the web, there are many ways to make material improvements to the compression part of it, and they are well worth doing. I will therefore reiterate my considered professional opinion: This draft is a great prototype for a HTTP/2 protocol, we have learned a lot from developing it. Now we should heed Frederick P. Brooks sage advice and throw our prototype away and start from scratch, as we are now much wiser on how not to do it right. -- 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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