[6776] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTTP-NG: status report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon E Spero)
Tue Nov 22 17:14:13 1994
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 22:58:41 +0100
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From: Simon E Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
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This needs a more detailed response, but here's a few instant sound bites :-)
1) Working group
Should be one set up after the BOF at the IETF in San Jose next month
2) What is needed- I outlined a few of these in the architectural overview
more will undoubtedly be presented at the BOF and WGs
3) Why change - I also outlined the rationale for changing in the overview -
this is expanded in the HTML version (to be made available when
Dave gets back from London tommorow.
4) When - part of the design criteria was the need to have something that
could work well in a phased transition - the proxy approach works really
well for this - in theory there only need be two machines running the new
protocol either side of a long pipe, and all old clients could proxy through
them to see a huge speedup (need to be pretty hefty machines though :-)
5) Servers parsing documents - This is fine, providing the results are cached.
One of the problems with server-side includes is that because they aren't
referential transparent, you can't in general cache the results.
Simon
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