Re: Nice to have guidance (was: Re: Reprioritization - implementation intent)

> On Jul 21, 2020, at 11:19 AM, Lucas Pardue <lucaspardue.24.7@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Eric,
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> Just responding to your side note
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> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 6:56 PM Eric Kinnear <ekinnear@apple.com <mailto:ekinnear@apple.com>> wrote:
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> Side note:
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> For the document as a whole, we’ve gotten some feedback internally that it would be really nice if there were some (minimal, recommendation only) guidance as to how to respond to the priority signals when received. This wouldn’t be restrictive, as we’re really excited to experiment here and see what awesome results we can achieve, but having a baseline of “implement this as written and you’ll do okay” might be worth considering to increase the likelihood that we have a large group of generally-performant implementations.
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> An example here would be if two requests of the same urgency arrive back-to-back, the first with the incremental bit set and the second without. What gets sent when? What do you do next if a third request arrives with the incremental bit also set before the first is complete? There are lots and lots of permutations, but a general approach of handling new items coming in is something that I think we’ve all been imagining during discussions, but we haven’t really written it down explicitly. Internally, as we discussed with some folks new to the topic, we discovered that our imaginations of what to do in cases like these didn’t actually align as well as we thought.
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> Thanks for your feedback. I think this is orthogonal to the reprioritization issue
Absolutely!

> so I've created https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/1232 <https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/1232> to capture your comments. I think this might have some cross over with https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/1216 <https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/1216> so if you coud take at look at those and add anything more to them it would be appreciated.

Sounds great, thank you! 

Much appreciated, 
Eric

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> Cheers
> Lucas
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