HTTP 2.0: The Google Way or the Microsoft Way?

Posted by ifindkarma on Friday March 30, 2012 @02:27PM
from the pandawhale.com dept.

http://pandawhale.com/convo/765/http-20-the-google-way-or-the-microsoft-way

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Re:HTTP 2.0: The Google Way or the Microsoft Way? by ifindkarma on Friday March 30, 2012 @02:27PM (#3777381)

The comment that makes me think:

Spec'ing HTTP 2.0 has been such a clusterfuck. According to Mark in an email to the HTTP Working Group, as of January 2012 they were "past the four year mark (on a WG that was originally chartered for a year and a half)".

No wonder he's concerned about failure through "spending five years fighting and gazing at our navels."

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Re:HTTP 2.0: The Google Way or the Microsoft Way? by wmf on Friday March 30, 2012 @02:55PM (#3777516)

This doesn't really follow. They spent four years doing nothing; that doesn't mean that it will take five more years to create the 2.0 spec.

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Re:HTTP 2.0: The Google Way or the Microsoft Way? by ifindkarma on Friday March 30, 2012 @04:44PM (#3778016)

I agree that past is not always an indicator of future.

But in this case, doing exactly the same things and expecting a different outcome is insanity defined.

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Re:HTTP 2.0: The Google Way or the Microsoft Way? by wmf on Friday March 30, 2012 @04:54PM (#3778052)

They're not doing the same things; now we have two proposals on the table, one of which has been widely deployed.

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