Re: [presentation-api] Possibility for UA to close the connection when it is no longer operational (#485)

I believe in the past we concluded that applications that wanted a signal about the liveness of the connection should implement their own keep-alive and not assume that the user agent would do so on their behalf.

Some reasons why I think that's the right approach:

1. Applications may want to be more/less aggressive on this.
2. Implementing a universal keep-alive in the user agent increases network traffic and hurts battery life.
3. Some protocols (like QUIC, used in OSP, or cloud-based connections) are not connection-oriented and "operational" may not have a clear-cut definition.
4. The user agent may want to close idle connections and reconnect in the background.




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