HTTP 2.0: The Google Way or the Microsoft Way?

Referring to: Engineers rebuild HTTP as a faster Web foundation | Deep Tech - CNET News

From the article:

At a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) here yesterday, the working group overseeing HTTP formally opened a dicussion about how to make the technology faster. That discussion included presentations about four specific proposals for HTTP 2.0, including SPDY, developed at Google and already used in the real world, and HTTP Speed+Mobility, developed at Microsoft and revealed Wednesday.

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9:32 AM Mar 30 2012

HTTP Working Group Chairman Mark Notthingham's preso [PDF]

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9:35 AM Mar 30 2012

Slide from the preso:

Ways we can FAIL

Defining the perfect protocol that doesn’t

get into implementations

Spending five years fighting and gazing at

our navels

Only serving the needs of Web sites that

serve N billion requests/day

Not being deployable in corporates, over

mobile, satellite, etc. (i.e., wherever HTTP/

1.x is used)

Trying to serve every possible use case

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9:41 AM Mar 30 2012

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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9:54 AM Mar 30 2012

Props Given:

Lucas, that comment really makes me think. So I shared it on Twitter, Google+ and Hacker News.

HTTP 2.0: The Google Way or the Microsoft Way?

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