Re: Preliminary agenda for Dallas from Cory Benfield on 2015-03-11 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2015)

From: Cory Benfield <cory@lukasa.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:15:58 +0000
To: Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com>
Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAH_hAJECxf++XAVxYv=ZdRBzusW0QY2vtEDzUovWNAiszfkUow@mail.gmail.com>

On 10 March 2015 at 19:19, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that kind of input is what we need to consider before starting work on a -bis document or HTTP/3 or whatever. I don’t think that thought experiments are going to add new useful insights. So IMO the best course of action is to publish HTTP/2 as is, and wait for feedback from the field, especially the parts of the field that were not represented in this discussion.

Agreed. I have seen real-world examples of HTTP/2 providing
substantial performance improvements, so I'm convinced that *at least
some of the time* H2 represents a substantial improvement over
HTTP/1.1. I am willing to participate in further improvements, but we
should get some concrete examples of problems and limitations before
we jump down that rabbit hole again.

Received on Wednesday, 11 March 2015 09:16:26 UTC