Re: [TLS] Request for review: Next Protocol Negotiation Extension

[Martin Rex <[e-mail]>]

Adam Langley wrote:
> 
> However, as evidence of how important latency is, witness the amount
> of work that we are putting into it. (SPDY, Google DNS, Snap Start,
> False Start, NPN, ...)

On my personal scorecard, management focus doesn't count as evidence
of much besides Hypes and succesful marketing.

TLS False Start has always been an obvious potential for optimization.
I haven't looked at Snap start yet, but I doubt that I would like it
after figuring out how it works.  To me it seemed that some mount of the
"apparent latency" is caused by TCP congestion control (TCP slow start
and delayed TCP ACK) and the original initial TLS roundtrip actually
improves opening of the transmit window.

-Martin