RE: WiSH: A General Purpose Message Framing over Byte-Stream Oriented Wire Protocols (HTTP)

QUIC's charter doesn't have anything directly to do with WebSockets.  But I agree that since WebSockets came from a different WG, it might be a reasonable question to the ADs whether that working group should be rechartered to do an HTTP/2 or HTTP/QUIC port.

HTTP/2 makes many of the pre-WebSocket solutions to this problem space much cheaper.  QUIC will probably make it even more so.  If there are people who feel strongly that WebSockets still meet a need over a modern HTTP, I'm happy to read and occasionally comment, but I don't feel called to be integral to that work.

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From: Poul-Henning Kamp [mailto:phk@phk.freebsd.dk] 
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 1:19 PM
To: Van Catha <vans554@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>; Takeshi Yoshino <tyoshino@google.com>; Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>; Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>; ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>; Wenbo Zhu <wenboz@google.com>; Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: WiSH: A General Purpose Message Framing over Byte-Stream Oriented Wire Protocols (HTTP)

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In message <CAG-EYCiVExcyHLoXB1ixQCKduxUPTVOnVX1XrmFJ3b72Y8AAFg@mail.gmail.com>
, Van Catha writes:

>So can we form a new WG then and focus on doing this right vs making 
>WebSocket2.  The focus earlier was to get the already coded clients and 
>API (websocket API) to be able to work with websockets layered on 
>HTTP2/QUIC, if we are in it for the long haul now we might as well form 
>a new group and create something more long term?

Apologies for asking a stupid question, but isn't that exactly what QUIC is all about in the first place ?

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