On: Upcoming SPDY support details

[tedunangst]

"just roll it out and make everyone do what we did" is precisely the mechanism that has saddled us with innumerable busted protocols and bizarre implementation artifacts.

[nl → tedunangst]

Yep! Any day now the beautifully designed X.25 protocol[1] will replace TCP, just like OSI[2] predicted.

Rough Consensus and Working Code[3] built the internet, and it seems to work well enough to be useful.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.25

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Systems_Interconnection

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_consensus

[tedunangst → nl]

You appear to have reached a very different conclusion than I.

[jamesaguilar → tedunangst]

Then again, hard to argue that strategy is all bad. We have the internet as it is today, which while perhaps not ideal, is quite a thing.

[huggyface → tedunangst]

It is also a way to essentially put your money where your mouth is, aligning interests and ensuring that you really believe what you're saying. Pushing out specs is a little too easy to simply delay others from doing anything.

Further implementations can be credibly compared and considered. Many "HTML 5" features came via Google Gears, and would have taken a decade the traditional paper route.