Peer to Peer Web

Hi,

I came across an IETF proposal to allow Peer to Peer Communication over HTTP/2.0
from about 6 years ago:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-benfield-http2-p2p-02

It is a pretty simple idea, that comes from thinking about client/server as
roles in a communication that can be changed.

It would allow a browser to change from client role into a server role for example
on the request by the server. Why would that be useful?
I found one nice example: it would allow the server to ask the client for
credentials using HTTP without needing to open a new connection, thus allowing
credential exchange to be declarative.

I put some text here on the subject with pointers

https://github.com/w3c/architecture/issues/14

But that is the wrong place. Perhaps the TAG could open an issue on this,
to allow others to find more use cases that would be helped by such a feature.


Henry Story

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