Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental-02.txt

> My concern, as Rory correctly captures, is that ultimately there are only two states being mapped on to three values. It's not wrong, but seems inefficient.

It's possible that "?0" and (none) are identical in theory, but not in practice.  That's because the meaning of (none) varies between deployments.  If the deployment sometimes carries unrecognized incremental streams, then all unrecognized (none) streams must be passed incrementally today.

I agree that, in the future, it may make sense to define some parameters for "Incremental".  I don't see anything strange about those parameters being limited to the "?1" case, if that turns out to be sensible*.

--Ben

*Perhaps a parameter like "max-interval", the max time between sends by the origin, could apply to "?0" as well.

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