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

Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> Wed, 01 September 2010 23:53 UTC

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On 2 September 2010 09:42, Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:36 PM, John Tamplin <jat@google.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> wrote:
>>> No one should be using this protocol for anything that can't receive a
>>> breaking change.
>>
>> Then how do we get real world data?  Should everyone go modify Firefox
>> or Chrome themselves and run against only their servers to see how it
>> works?
>
> 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.


I'm not running the experiment.
I'm providing infrastructure to many different organizations and
developers that are running the experiments.
Some of them are using real users in their experiments.

There is no single point of control.

regards