Re: PTTH (aka Reverse HTTP) BoF in Madrid

PTTH chairs: were there any outcomes or notes from the BoF?

I could not attend due to illness, but am keen on the topic, and would 
like to hear what came out, and contribute if possible.

Thanks,
Michael

On 7/15/25 3:09 PM, David Schinazi wrote:
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> Hi HTTP enthusiasts,
>
>
> I'm happy to announce that we will be holding the PTTH (aka Reverse 
> HTTP) BoF in Madrid. Our main goal there will be to establish whether 
> we should pursue this work, and if so, where. Since one of the 
> potential outcomes is to fold this work into HTTP, our AD has asked us 
> to use the HTTP mailing list to discuss this topic until the BoF.
>
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> More details on the topic of the BoF can be found at [1], but in a 
> nutshell the idea would be to enable use cases where the HTTP server 
> lives at the client end of the transport-layer connection.
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> You're all invited to the BoF, but until then we'd like to have a 
> mailing list discussion around such use cases. Are you aware of some? 
> Do you think there is a gap in our protocol offerings to enable those 
> use cases? If so, what requirements would you have on a potential new 
> solution in this space?
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> There are multiple drafts in this solution space, but for now we're 
> intentionally seeking discussion on use cases and requirements. Our 
> goal is to figure out the scope of this potential new work.
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> Thanks,
>
> David, PTTH BoF co-chair
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> [1] 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/bofreq-rosomakho-protocol-for-transposed-transactions-over-http/
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