Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal)
Scott Ferguson <ferg@caucho.com> Wed, 18 August 2010 01:27 UTC
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Subject: Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal)
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John Tamplin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Thomson, Martin > <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com <mailto:Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>> wrote: > > That wasn’t the suggestion at all. Binary/text was included. The > proposal was length + opcode. Two opcodes only…for now. > > > > The other stuff (fragmentation, channels, etc) are well enough > understood now to say that they can be built in later. Hence, we > reserve the bits and plan to build them later (or not at all). > > > I think we do know that we have a use-case for fragmentation, as it > has been accepted as a requirement for this protocol. As previously > mentioned, the inclusion of a total message length was required to > remove objections to fragmentation. So, other than having two options > for the frame length to preserve efficient encoding of small messages, > I think the current proposal is about as minimal as it can get. A variable-length frame-header is not as minimal as it can get. In your design, initial fragments have a 18 byte header (!), non-fragmented messages > 127 have 10 byte header, non-initial fragments are 10 bytes, and 127 byte messages (shorter than a tweet) have a special 2 byte header. That is not a minimal proposal. -- Scott > > I think if we leave out fragmentation and planned extensibility from > the base protocol, we haven't really accomplished anything and we will > either wind up having to make incompatible changes later or having > suboptimal framing once we do define some extensions. > > Let's say we did strip out fragmentation, and even defined the INI/FIN > bits as proposed, but required that they be 1 in the initial version. > Then, any intermediaries and receivers that are written now will > break when fragmentation is added later, and experience shows that > those intermediaries will be very slowly upgraded. I think that would > add years to when fragmentation could usefully be used, so I think it > is entirely appropriate that fragmentation support be in the base > protocol. > > -- > John A. Tamplin > Software Engineer (GWT), Google > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > hybi mailing list > hybi@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/hybi >
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- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Scott Ferguson
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- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Ian Hickson
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ)
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Bjoern Hoehrmann
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- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Takeshi Yoshino
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Willy Tarreau
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Anne van Kesteren
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
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- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ)
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- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Takeshi Yoshino
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- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Dave Cridland
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Dave Cridland
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Greg Wilkins
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Patrick McManus
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ)
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Dave Cridland
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- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Thomson, Martin
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- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ)
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Thomson, Martin
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
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- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Scott Ferguson
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Scott Ferguson
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) Dave Cridland
- Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal) John Tamplin