- From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 09:12:45 +1100
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020, at 04:52, David Schinazi wrote: > Could you please elaborate on your statement "My view is that we can't > really deploy ALPS in an incremental fashion for HTTP/2. Part of what > I'm looking for here is an incremental solution."? I'm not seeing what > makes your proposal more incremental than ALPS, so perhaps I'm missing > something here. I gave a longer response regarding suitability of ALPS in that thread. As did Cory. I can see how you might choose to opportunistically use ALPS, but I don't think that you can add it trivially to HTTP/2 implementations. It's more of a case of not wanting it than it being functionally impossible; we could likely make anything work if we assume good integration of stack layers, but that isn't how HTTP/2 has been deployed and retrofitting something in that way would only result in a privileged few having the capability. I would rather see it deployed for new protocols than try to have its presence alter how this existing protocol works.
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