Re: Design Issue: PUSH_PROMISE and Stream Priority

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Fri, 26 April 2013 18:36 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Design Issue: PUSH_PROMISE and Stream Priority
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On 26 April 2013 09:27, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
> For this there are several possible solutions:
>
>     A. We can simply say PUSH_PROMISE streams have no priority.
>     B. We can say that PUSH_PROMISE streams inherit the priority of
> their parent, client-initiated stream
>     C. We can allow the server to use HEADERS+PRIORITY or a new
> Reprioritization Frame to establish the priority of a pushed stream.

That seems like a fair taxonomy.

A is not possible.  There is no such thing as no priority.  Default
priority, perhaps.  At the point that you have to contend with
choosing between two streams, then you have prioritization.