[11158] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: hmmm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Slemko)
Wed Mar 11 22:12:53 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 20:00:38 -0700 (MST)
From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To: Martin Hamilton <martin@net.lut.ac.uk>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <E0yCxbt-0004fK-00@gizmo.lut.ac.uk>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Martin Hamilton wrote:
[...]
> I think it's both of these things, because the upshot is that hackers
> (as opposed to marketing/PR departments, middle managers, and big
> business - or waffly academic - oriented "standards" groups) will be
> in a position to make an impact on the future development of the WWW.
>
> In particular, I'd like to suggest that now might be a good time to
> start thinking about what a next generation "HTTP replacement"
> protocol should look like. I'm not sure whether this list is a good
> place to have this discussion, but we should find out pretty
> quickly... :-)
There are plans for things like HTTP/1.2 (relatively minor) and HTTP-NG
work is underway that addresses a lot more. But you can't find out
anything about HTTP-NG except for the very limited info available at W3C
unless you are special. While you may be, I'm not.
