Re: HTTP/2.0 SETTINGS frame values

Michael Welzl <michawe@ifi.uio.no> Tue, 28 May 2013 09:33 UTC

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I can't believe that this keeps happening to me (being one of the chairs of ICCRG) - very sorry, everyone! Here's a fix, using the correct address for ICCRG!

Cheers,
Michael


On 28. mai 2013, at 11:25, Michael Welzl wrote:

> (including ICCRG because folks there might be interested)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just joined the list. While I did look at some old presentations from minutes and the list archive, I might have missed an answer to the question I'm asking - my apologies in this case!
> 
> Here it goes: here, http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-02#section-3.7.4
> various values are defined, like an estimate of the upload bandwidth, download bandwidth, the RTT, the initial window and so forth.
> 
> I wonder, has it been discussed whether these things are useful and/or appropriate?
> I have only seen a thread related to SETTINGS_CURRENT_CWND, but what about all the other stuff (values 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7)? This smells like a feedback channel for app-layer congestion control, is this the plan  (of, ahem, the whole HTTPBIS group) ?    :-)
> 
> Thanks, cheers,
> Michael
>