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

2011-09-06 10:18:36
On 2011-09-03 20:51, Joel Martin wrote:
Roy,

You may feel that the wording of your note is not pejorative (because
what you wanted to say is so much more so), but the tone and wording
come across that way even if it is technically accurate.

Having a note in the spec that WebSocket connections over port 80 and
443 wlll have traffic patterns that are substantially different than
normal HTTP patterns and how this might impact existing infrastructure
is probably worthwhile but I don't think most of your note is helpful or
serves much purpose (except as a passive aggressive way to express an
opinion that the current WebSocket protocol is fatally flawed).

Just one example: "convoluted and inefficient". A simple 4-byte running
XOR hash is convoluted? Certainly it's slightly more complicated than
> ...

Wild guess: back when that text was written, the exchange was more complex than it is now, right?

> ...

Best regards, Julian
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