Re: Benoit Claise's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpbis-alt-svc-13: (with COMMENT)

[Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]>]

Hi Benoit,

> A clear sentence such as this one would have helped me:
> OLD:
>   This specification defines a new concept in HTTP, "Alternative
>   Services", that allows an origin server to nominate additional means
>   of interacting with it on the network.  
> NEW:
>   This specification defines a new concept in HTTP, "Alternative
>   Services", applicable to both HTTP 1.1 and HTTP 2.0, that allows 
>   an origin server to nominate additional means of interacting with 
>   it on the network.  

AltSvc is not specific to those two versions of the protocol; in theory, it could be used in HTTP/1.0, or in HTTP/3 if that eventuates.


> I overlooked this info in the following sentence, i.e. the fact that HTTP
> header = HTTP 1.1:
> 
>   It defines a general
>   framework for this in Section 2, along with specific mechanisms for
>   advertising their existence using HTTP header fields (Section 3) or
>   HTTP/2 frames (Section 4), plus a way to indicate that an alternative
>   service was used (Section 5).

The header isn't specific to HTTP/1.1; it could be used in HTTP/2 as well.

Cheers,


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