Re: Encouraging a healthy HTTP/2 ecosystem

• From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
• Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 22:38:15 +0000
• To: William Chan (陈智昌) <willchan@chromium.org>
• cc: Jason Greene <jason.greene@redhat.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <17510.1404254295@critter.freebsd.dk>

In message <CAA4WUYgJunXNe4BbZd9ZVJ8QqXZibJ2J9QyCf493ZtU+Ay4hxA@mail.gmail.com>, =?UTF-8?B?V2lsbGlhbSBDaGF
uICjpmYjmmbrmmIwp?= writes:

>> And what if the MITM proxies disagree with you about which parts of
>> the standard deserve to work and block some of them ?
>
>> What will you do ?
>
>Hard fail. User visible error. End users blame the last mover,  [...]

This is why I called the proposal "blackmail".

I think HTTP/2 should strive to be such a good protocol that people will
want it, rather than try to intimidate any dissent with thinly veiled
"Nice website you have here, pity if anything happened to it..." threats.

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Received on Tuesday, 1 July 2014 22:38:37 UTC