Call for Adoption: TCP Tuning for HTTP

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Wed, 02 March 2016 05:51 UTC

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[ copying Alison as our Transport Tech Advisor ]

Daniel has kindly started a document about how HTTP uses TCP, both for /1 and /2:
  <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-stenberg-httpbis-tcp>

We haven't explicitly discussed this at a meeting, but I have heard interest in this topic from a variety of folks.

What do people think about adopting this with a target of Best Current Practice?

Please comment on-list.

Regards,

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Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/