- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:27:02 -0700
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Mark Nottingham <mark.nottingham@bea.com>
What's the point of this new protocol? To bum a small constant in network performance? Seems shortsighted given the enormous amount of effort it takes to tool up for and specify a new protocol. Not to mention one that looks to essentially end a platform on which to build a further babel of ad hoc protocols. And considering Moores law. Definitely worth a review, if you ask me. URN versus URI seems the least issue here. -Alan Alan On Thursday, August 20, 2009, <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com> wrote: > An interesting discussion is being held on the W3C URI mailing list, > beginning with Ian Hickson's announcement that [1]: > > "The formal registrations for the ws: and wss: > schemes, part of the Web Socket protocol, > will be available in the Web Socket protocol ID > as soon as the IETF upload process completes: [2] > [I'm not sure why the link is to section-7, but that's > the link in Ian's note -- Noah]" > > Not surprisingly, one question is whether an http scheme URI would be more > appropriate. FWIW, I'm not convinced it would be better, in this case, > but it's an interesting discussion, and there are IMO some advantages to > either choice. Please also look at the associated protocol [3], which > begins with a handshake that does use (or if you prefer, is comptible > with) the HTTP protocol upgrade handshake. > > The automatic threading by the W3C mail handler isn't collecting all of > the discussion into one thread, so it's probably worth looking through all > of the August archives [3] if you haven't been subscribing and want to > reconstruct the discussion. > > I'm not ready to suggest that the TAG undertake a formal study of this > issue or that we provide a formal opinion on the registration, but I think > it's at least worth taking a look at the email thread. I will put this on > the agenda for our 27 August teleconference. Thank you. > > Noah > > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2009Aug/0002.html > [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol#section-7 > [3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol > [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2009Aug/0002.html > > -------------------------------------- > Noah Mendelsohn > IBM Corporation > One Rogers Street > Cambridge, MA 02142 > 1-617-693-4036 > -------------------------------------- > > > > > >
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