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Re: [hybi] It's time to ship

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Mon, 10 January 2011 00:44 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
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Subject: Re: [hybi] It's time to ship
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On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> wrote:
> On 9 January 2011 23:21, Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> wrote:
>> Gentle people of hybi,
>>
>> There's been a lot of good discussion in this working group gathering
>> consensus around the data framing and the handshake.  At some point we
>> need to declare victory and ship the protocol, otherwise proprietary
>> solutions will continue to eat our lunch.
>>
>> I've written up a more formal version of Pat's proposal based on the
>> recent straw poll and subsequent discussion.  This protocol is by no
>> means perfect, but it's good enough:
>>
>> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-abarth-thewebsocketprotocol-01.txt
>
> I cannot agree this proposal.

Thanks for your feedback.  I'd encourage you not to implement this
protocol then.

Kind regards,
Adam

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