Re: Call For Adoption Live Byte Ranges

[Patrick McManus <[e-mail]>]

Craig - sorry again for the schedule on this one. We certainly have
consensus for adoption. Please upload an ietf-httpbis copy to the
datatracker when you're ready (it can be the same as your current revision
if you like).

Our WG drafts are normally managed through github at
https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions - contact Mark or I out of band
and we'll help with the administration of the repo for whomever would like
to have primary responsibility for the document - or if you'd rather skip
that you can send us the markdown and we'll take care of it for you.

I think the primary remaining concern of the chairs is that the draft get a
thorough review from header field experts in our community.

-Patrick


On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Craig Pratt <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 12/19/16 2:30 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
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>> Does anyone have any *additional* input on adopting this document? it
>> seems that there is strong support so far.
>>
>> We'll keep the our several CFAs open through the new year and then make a
>> determination. Thanks.
>>
>> -Patrick
>>
>> Thanks Patrick,
>
> In consideration of Poul-Henning Kamp's feedback and some evolution in my
> own preferences, I'm drafting a revision to the Live Bytes Range draft to
> define the "Very Large Value" as a specific numerical value - after
> realizing that 2^63 bytes doesn't really represent a practical limit.
>
> e.g. At 50Mb/s, a representation limited to 2^63 bytes representation
> could cover over 46000 years. Even at 1Gb/s, 2339 years could be
> represented.
>
> 2^63 is 9223372036854775808 (decimal). I've defined a smaller value to
> avoid potential conflicts and to make the value more easily identifiable:
> 9222999999999999999.
>
> I think having a clearly-defined Very Large Value such as this to
> represent the indeterminate end of content will be more
> deterministic/easily implemented than having a Server try to establish a
> VLV in each HTTP exchange. But I'd appreciate any thoughts prior to
> revising the draft.
>
> Thanks much - and Happy New Year,
>
> cp
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