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Re: [hybi] I-D Action:draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-01.txt

John Tamplin <jat@google.com> Wed, 01 September 2010 23:55 UTC

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From: John Tamplin <jat@google.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:56:03 -0400
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On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> wrote:
> If you're running an experiment, you should either:
>
> 1) Upgrade your clients and servers.
> 2) Break folks who are using old versions of the protocol.
>
> (or ideally both)
>
> If you can't either upgrade the old code or break the use of the old
> code, you'll be calcified into using that version protocol.
> Versioning isn't the solution.  Avoiding calcification in the
> solution.

If the clients are the general public, it is not feasible to have them
all upgrade at the same time.  If you want to test a big service, you
can't afford to break people running older browsers.  So your solution
boils down to, test only in controlled environments which means no
real world experience.

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

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