Re: Hello from Mozilla

tis 2009-07-14 klockan 23:35 +0200 skrev Henrik Nordstrom:

> For what it's worth neither 81 or 815 is registered with IANA, and the
> web-sockets draft you referenced has expired.

Correction, the draft is not expired as it was recently resubmitted to
IETF, but very much a work in progress.

The correct link for reading up on websockets is

        http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/

and/or

        http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol

There was a very brief discussion regarding websockets in the HTTPbis
IETF WG in January. But it didn't spur very much interest among the HTTP
people and discussions quickly died, not too surprisingly as it's not
HTTP even if the initial connection setup is wrapped in an HTTP style
message to be able to piggy-back on port 80.

        http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2009JanMar/0008.html

The actual discussions regarding this family of wire protocols now take
place on the HYBI IETF mailing list

        https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/hybi

and from a quick scan of the discussions there apparently is several
(two to four) proposals being discussed.

and it's still very early to say where things will end up. There is not
yet an official IETF working group dealing with this, just an informal
gathering to discuss the problem area to see in what direction an
eventual standardization effort should go.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Jul 14 2009 - 22:25:03 MDT