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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Make HTTP frames a TLV format. This has several advantages: (#2235)

ekr <notifications@github.com> Mon, 24 December 2018 19:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Make HTTP frames a TLV format. This has several advantages: (#2235)
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On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 11:11 AM Dmitri Tikhonov <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> Previously HTTP over QUIC adopted varints because it was straightforward
> and QUIC transport had recently adopted them. Moving HTTP/3 to TLV seems
> like a similar change.
>
> One does not follow from the other; TLV vs LTV and fixed-size vs varint
> are two different, orthogonal questions.
>

This is true at some level, but once we've changed anything, we might as
well ask what the best design is.


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