Re: [hybi] -09: IANA considerations

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Tue, 21 June 2011 12:53 UTC

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2011/6/21 Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>:
> That all said, it's not clear to me this really needs a registry, or why one
> might want to allow independant stream RFCs to define a new version number -
> that effectively means that the next version of WebSockets might not be an
> IETF protocol at all. In contrast with the other registries - which seem
> reasonable - allowing random people to invent new and conflicting versions
> seems like a recipe for chaos.

I agree. WebSocket draft/RFC should registry an unique protocol
version (i.e. "1.0"). If a future extension is created, it should not
involve a new protocol version, but instead a like "Require" mechanism
within the core protocol so a client or a server can require an
extension and, if the other party supports it use it, if not, fail the
connection with the appropiated mechanism (i.e: "extension not
supported"). The protocol version cannot change for each new
extension.

For example, in SIP protocol (whose version is "2.0" and that's all)
there are "Require" and "Supported" headers. If a client sends a
request with "Require: xxxxxx" and the server does not support it, the
server replies 420 "Bad Extension":

   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3261#section-21.4.15

Such mechanism is already defined in SIP 2.0, so increasing the
protocol version number is never required.

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Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>