Re: issue 381: Discovery of the support of the HTTP2 protocol: DNS-based Upgrade

On 18 Feb 2014, at 8:52 pm, Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> wrote:

> Replying to myself, I'd like to make one point clear:
> 
> It is ABSOLUTELY okay to use SRV so long as we accept that in some
> circumstances there will be some performance degradation, and that we
> will need to sort versioning beyond h2.  That latter issue implies some
> IN BAND upgrade mechanism for h2->hN.  In the case of TLS, we might
> simply handle this with ALPN, but someone from the TLS side should think
> about this in the context of a fast restart.

This is what�s concerned me in the past. We�ve made a lot of decisions based upon the assumption that introducing h3�hn (as well as other protocol identifiers) won�t require adding more round trips.

Now, with ALPN, that may be OK, but it doesn�t help for non-TLS deployments, such as they are.

Cheers,

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Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/

Received on Thursday, 20 February 2014 09:24:10 UTC