On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 16:23 -0500, Robert Sparks wrote:
> >>
> 
>  From my memory of what happened at the time (which may be faulty):
> 
> After a long, and in the end relatively pointless, argument about text  
> vs binary formatting, the consensus of the group was to go a text  
> format.
> Rather than invent one from scratch (which may or may not have  
> rendered a more graceful syntax), the participants in the discussion  
> decided
> explicitly to reuse as much of HTTPs grammar as we could. Some of the  
> arguments were along the lines of speeding implementation by allowing
> the reuse of existing parser code. There were other points made at the  
> time of a similar nature.

There were also some at the time who had hopes that it could be made to
work transparently through HTTP proxies.  That didn't last long, though.

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