Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

[Masataka Ohta <[e-mail]>]

Hector Santos wrote:

> A Major Application will offer all services necessary for the customer 
> to leverage. They are not going to eliminate ftp just because the 
> "developer" likes http better or whats customers to switch to http. Even 
> then, where I have seen a history of people using a http link, I have 
> also seen many changed back, if only to help balance or spread loads.

I'm afraid you are not distinguishing providers of intermediate
infrastructure and competing developers of various software used
on end systems. The differentiations between them are essential
to understand the Internet.

Roy T. Fielding wrote:

> HTTP would not, cannot,
> and never will benefit from SRV even if we had a magic wand that
> could deploy it on all browsers.  SRV simply doesn't fit the Web
> architecture.

SRV is a tool for port based real/virtual hosting, which is why it
has increased its usefulness with IPv4 address exhaustion.

						Masataka Ohta