Re: Time to refresh HTTP/2?

Am 28.08.2020 um 13:27 schrieb Willy Tarreau:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 12:59:03PM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Am 28.08.2020 um 09:15 schrieb Martin Thomson:
>>> All this tiresome talk about terminology got me thinking about the value of action over words.
>>>
>>> So, I present to you a proposed update to RFC 7540:
>>>
>>>     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-thomson-httpbis-http2bis-00
>>>
>>> This only does:
>>>
>>> * removes unnecessarily divisive terminology
>>> * rolls up errata
>>>
>>> Obviously, there is a long and slippery slope of things that we might do from this point.  However, I think that it would be good if we could just publish a minimal update without getting embroiled in difficult and time-consuming design questions.
>>>
>>> The diff is mostly just stuff that xml2rfc does differently five years on:
>>>
>>>     https://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url1=https://ietf.org/rfc/rfc7540.txt&url2=https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-thomson-httpbis-http2bis-00.txt
>>>
>>> Or you can peruse the individual changes I made:
>>>
>>>     https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/compare/master...martinthomson:main
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Actually, I was going to suggest that as well, but mainly to align
>> HTTP/2 with the new core specs - it would be good to say how the cleanup
>> affects the references from HTTP/2.
>
> +1 as well. Wouldn't it be an opportunity to also reference (or even merge)
> the extensions such as RFC8441 which adds the ":protocol" pseudo-header ?

And it probably should include RFC 8740 ("Using TLS 1.3 with HTTP/2")...

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 28 August 2020 11:52:40 UTC