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

["Roy T. Fielding" <[e-mail]>]

On Sep 1, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Adam Barth wrote:

> Please don't add versioning to the protocol.  Versioning is a
> anti-pattern for the web.

FTR, that statement is false.  There is a very small group of
inexperienced developers that think client-side rendering of
uncontrolled content somehow defines universal principles for
all software engineering.  The rest of us use whatever techniques
we can to reduce entropy.  Network protocols, in particular,
should always have a version number to distinguish them from
other similar protocols that might appear in the same context.

Both HTTP and Waka have their version in the first line of
every message, and I can assure you that the Web would not have
survived without it.

....Roy