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Re: [hybi] Payload only compression extension, again

John Tamplin <jat@google.com> Thu, 07 July 2011 14:17 UTC

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From: John Tamplin <jat@google.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:17:23 -0400
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Subject: Re: [hybi] Payload only compression extension, again
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On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:

> Hi, WS is still a draft, IMHO the specs should not include backawards
> compatibility mechanisms with other revisions of the spec (while still
> a draft). Maybe I miss something?
>

The problem is that there are deployed implementations, and breaking them
would be bad for adoption of the spec.  I agree, you don't want to clutter
up the spec with too much support for old versions, but in this case there
is very little cost.

In an ideal world, the spec would be finished before it was deployed, but
that also means not getting implementation experience back into the spec, so
there are tradeoffs both ways.

-- 
John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google

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