Protocol Action: 'Extensible Prioritization Scheme for HTTP' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-httpbis-priority-12.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Extensible Prioritization Scheme for HTTP'
  (draft-ietf-httpbis-priority-12.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the HTTP Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Murray Kucherawy and Francesca Palombini.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-priority/





Technical Summary

   This document defines a new mechanism for communicating per-stream priorities in HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Priority here communicates a level of urgency and information about if the data can be loaded incrementally, and can be communicated at the start of a request and updated later. This mechanism can be used instead of the unsuccessful priority mechanism originally defined in HTTP/2.

Working Group Summary

   This work item came to HTTPbis as a requirement for HTTP/3 (developed in QUIC), which on its own didn't define any priorities. The working group ran a design team for the topic early on, and has seen good engagement in development of the solution. 

Document Quality

   There are a few implementations of the protocol in HTTP/3 to validate the effectiveness of the protocol, and implementations in general do intend to deploy this solution going forward (favored over the previous priority scheme). The document is well-structured and clear, and received extensive review from the WG.

Personnel

   Tommy Pauly is the Document Shepherd.
   Francesca Palombini is the Responsible Area Director.

Received on Tuesday, 18 January 2022 14:56:07 UTC