- From: Lucas Pardue <lucaspardue.24.7@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 01:14:02 +0000
- To: Martin Duke <martin.h.duke@gmail.com>
- Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, draft-ietf-httpbis-priority@ietf.org, httpbis-chairs@ietf.org, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Tommy Pauly <tpauly@apple.com>
- Message-ID: <CALGR9oZm9c3fJYfZs27d0S566uBpu+O_4VLY=E=qxLig6eWrFg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Martin, Thanks for the review. Responses in-line: On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 12:36 AM Martin Duke via Datatracker < noreply@ietf.org> wrote: > Martin Duke has entered the following ballot position for > draft-ietf-httpbis-priority-11: No Objection > > When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all > email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this > introductory paragraph, however.) > > > Please refer to https://www.ietf.org/blog/handling-iesg-ballot-positions/ > for more information about how to handle DISCUSS and COMMENT positions. > > > The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-priority/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > COMMENT: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Thanks to Bob Briscoe for the (extensive) TSVART review. From the thread, > it > looks like you have mostly addressed his concerns. > > Bob's question about the definition of fairness probably relates to the > rich > literature on this topic -- it's a bit more complicated than every > connection > getting the same bandwidth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_measure. > It > might be good to say exactly what you mean instead of falling back on the > term > of art, which carries a bit more complexity than I think you're asking > for. But > I think the considerations you have in Sec 13 are solid. > Could you elaborate a bit more? Bob's comment on fairness was in relation to Section 13. We added some text in response to try and clarify what we mean. It's possible that ,by whatever precise means fairness is measured, the actions of the intermediary could lead to unfairness. Therefore I'm not sure about the value in quantifying fairness any further. > It's interesting that PRIORITY_UPDATE cannot be sent by the server. Is it > conceivable that processing of the request could lead to late change in the > priority of different objects. > To paraphrase this scheme, it is primarily oriented around a client (and an intermediary, if there is one) hinting to the HTTP server responsible for prioritization about the initial conditions on which the response is to be prioritized. We acknowledge those conditions might change at the client; typically because a client might load new things that invalidate the initial conditions, or they switch focus and the objects could be backgrounded, etc. The PRIORITY_UPDATE frame is a signal that can articulate this. The important thing to realise though is that the signals are hints related to a very small aspect of the prioritisation. There is no need for client and server to keep well-coupled state about priority. The data flow we care about is response data, the proof is in the pudding of how those response bytes get delivered. If a server decides to throttle one response in favor of another, it doesn't need to signal that. It is conceivable that perhaps an origin server behind an intermediary would like to send something like a PRIORITY_UPDATE to an intermediary. The problem is that it would need to be kept up-to-date with what the client has been saying said. And all this gets complicated when we throw in intermediaries that need to convert to a version of HTTP that does not support frames at all. Nobody in the HTTP WG seemed to want us to design support for server-to-client PRIORITY_UPDATE and I'm happy with that outcome. The good news is that if someone really wanted to build that and document it, this draft would be compatible with such a design extension. Either by relaxing the rules for PRIORITY_UPDATE or defining a brand new frame type with very similar contents. Cheers, Lucas
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