Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] PRIORITY frame on control stream referencing unopened request stream (#2502)

[Mike Bishop <[e-mail]>]

I don't think simple buffering is sufficient.  You would have to not only buffer the frame that updates the priority of a not-yet-created stream, but also frames that create dependencies on that stream, and frames that create dependencies on streams that would be under that tree if you weren't already buffering the frames that create the tree.  That can be done, but it's not straightforward.

A simpler alternative is, potentially, to stop processing PRIORITY frames (which effectively means not processing the control stream) until the indicated stream has arrived.  Not great, but PRIORITY frames are most of what will be on that stream and we've already said they need to be processed in order.

I don't feel like there's a good solution to this and I'm supportive of exploring alternative priority mechanisms, but I'm not sure that needs to land in the core H3 spec.

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