The type of people that actually get offended by this stuff are rarely those involved with actually working with the protocol.

I like this stuff. It reminds me that humans with a sense of humor build the things we use everyday, and not some emotionless robot.

Ultimately HTTP 2.0 is like IPv6, no-one actually cares.

Having said that, people do get upset about 0xDEADBEEF and 0xCAFEBABE, those people need to get lives. Or come up with some other words using only 6 letters.

I can see how 0xCAFEBABE might cause issues in the modern tech community, but 0xDEADBEEF? Do they just hate hexspeak in general?

Vegans.

I'll wager someone out there, perhaps unwittingly, has 0xDEADBABE in their binary, God help them if the twitterati finds out.

>> 0xDEADBABE ("Dead Babe") is used by IBM Jikes RVM as a sanity check of the stack of the primary thread

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak#cite_note-13

Heh, maybe. I'd be interested to know if there have ever been any documented cases of vegans actually being offended by 0xDEADBEEF (in anything other than a joking way). Seems like something that is only 'hypothetically offensive'.

Unfortunately, the type of people that actually get offended by this stuff tend to go around looking for this stuff. And once it finds it, it starts twitter campaign against you and your project.

If you are have no public talking experience/training, you are going to loose and be labeled ugly names.

I kind of aspire to be that much of a "Jimmy Rustler" one day. I make it a mission to treat people with actual respect, but to be recognized and campaigned against for something like coding a not politically correct, but totally benign protocol into existence, would be an accomplishment I could only dream of at this point. I'd be flattered if someone cared that much.

Being the target of such a campaign can have 'real-world' implications, so you might want to make sure you have "fuck you"-money before looking for that sort of fight.

Understanding by the greatest possible number of people should be the goal here, in my opinion.

GOAWAY makes plenty sense when compared to GTFO, assuming that not everyone who learns of it intentionally is well-versed in that of which GTFO is a relatively smaller part. Grandma wouldn't necessarily get GTFO (right away, anyway) but she would likely pick up GOAWAY in a snap.

Of course, the above assumes a section of people who are fluent (enough?) in English to grok the spec.

EDIT: Grammerr.

EDIT: Clarification in response to Vonmoltke.

And GOAWAY is not clear and understandable from its name?

If we're really talking clear and understandable, id wager more of the world would understand FUCKOFF than it would GOAWAY, for example.

English profanity has a tendency to be better understood by other languages and countries than the appropriate western vernacular.