Re: Call for Consensus: Remove "reference set" from HPACK (to address #552)

• From: 山本和彦 <kazu@iij.ad.jp>
• Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 10:41:18 +0900 (JST)
• To: gregw@intalio.com
• Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <20140714.104118.1212863662218379695.kazu@iij.ad.jp>

Hi,

> Specifically, do we still need to copy static entries into the header set?
> 
> My understanding of that aspect feature was to control the maximum size of
> the reference set for zero state implementations.  Now that there is no
> reference set and the header table has it's own explicit size limit, can we
> just let static references stay in the static table.

I think that the index for static table and one for dynamic table can
be separated. If we take such a design, HPACK implementation would get
simpler.

--Kazu

Received on Monday, 14 July 2014 01:41:47 UTC