[11161] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Dissemination of HTTP-NG info [was: hmmm]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Koen Holtman)
Thu Mar 12 09:42:11 1998
From: koen@win.tue.nl (Koen Holtman)
To: marcs@znep.com (Marc Slemko)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 15:36:18 +0100 (MET)
Cc: connolly@w3.org, www-talk@w3.org, frystyk@w3.org, jg@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980311223826.15492v-100000@alive.znep.com> from "Marc Slemko" at Mar 11, 98 11:23:18 pm
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Marc Slemko:
>
[...]
> There are serious issues with
>HTTP/1.1 <-> network interactions, etc. that need to be dealt with in a
>reasonable timeframe.
I am not in the W3C HTTP-NG project, but it was my impression that
they did not intend to be a platform for quickly dealing with serious
network interaction problems in HTTP/1.1. I believe there is no such
platform now, mainly because of a (percieved) lack of really serious
problems.
Now, if you can make a convincing case that there are serious problems
(and I mean network-threatening problems, not just that HTTP/1.1 has
way too much accumulated cruft in it), then you may find that a lot of
the individuals in the IETF http-wg would be willing to get together
and help you develop a short-term fix, in the form of yet another
layer on top of HTTP/1.1.
However, I believe that HTTP/1.1 in its current form will get us
through the next few years. As such, I have no problems with the W3C
taking the longer view and making an effort to develop a possible
successor protocol in a closed group.
> Marc Slemko | Apache Group member
Koen.
