> On 20 Feb 2015, at 18:35, Will Hargrave <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are some orgs who oppose HTTP/2, notably this: > > http://www.atis.org/openweballiance/ > > Writing such nonsense as: "However, the proprietary proxies, such as those > that incorporate the SPDY protocol, do not give the user a voice in the > trade-offs between speed, efficiency and privacy. SPDY proxies are one > example of proprietary proxies that redirect Internet traffic through a > single opaque tunnel across the network. “ > > translation: ‘we don’t like this as we won’t be able to mess with your > traffic anymore’ >
I can see both sides of the argument in this case, if a protocol is making decisions for a user - that could have considerable side effects - here the protocol creators are in danger of becoming the middlebixes! But in my personal view, service providers should never interfere with users traffic; perhaps only if it's to ensure delivery of that traffic (load balancing for example), and protocol designers should use the most effective method to deliver the use case. Neil
