Re: [hybi] how do we move forward on agreeing on framing?

John Tamplin <jat@google.com> Thu, 19 August 2010 16:51 UTC

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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Francis Brosnan Blazquez
<francis@aspl.es>wrote:

> I think it is taking to much attention to include advanced features in
> the base protocol, or to define extensions that allow them, especially
> when those features can be implemented by protocols already defined like
> BEEP [1].
>

Unless you are suggesting that BEEP be adopted as the WebSocket protocol, I
am not sure how the fact that BEEP supports these things helps us here.  I
think BEEP is a bit heavy-weight for what we are trying to accomplish here,
though certainly it can be a source of ideas.

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John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google