Re: [xml-dev] 2007 Predictions

[Rick Marshall <rjm@zenucom.com>]

Pete Cordell wrote:
> Hi Tei,
>
> Just wondering why you think HTTP should be deprecated.
I'm over https. <big_statement>as the vast majority of internet traffic 
is now spam and multi-media downloads </big_statement> i would have 
thought that finding something worth stealing on the internet these days 
is a bit like the needle in the haystack.
>
> I would have thought the vast amount of HTTP traffic does not benefit 
> from security, so why require it if it's not needed?
>
> My gut feeling is that using HTTP over TLS for all requests would 
> dramatically increase server load.  Does anybody have more empirical 
> data for this?
>
> Re: IPv4 vs. IPv6: It seems that a lot of IETF protocol design now 
> grudgingly acknowledges the presence of NATs.  There may now even be 
> less pressure to deploy IPv6 than there was earlier!!!!  (If the 
> question had been what the IETF should do I would say they should do 
> IPv7 which would basically be IPv4 with a shim above the IP layer to 
> capture NAT state so that NATs could be state-less and addressing 
> could be end-to-end.  Alas that wasn't the question!)
NAT is not a good solution for VOIP and other point-to-point technology. 
And indeed things like msn and skype that use central servers to 
overcome the NAT problem also, by definition, lead to an unnecessary 
increase in required internet bandwidth.

Rick
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tei" <oscar.vives@gmail.com>
> To: "XML Developers List" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 5:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] 2007 Predictions
>
>
>> On 1/10/07, Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
>>> What do people think is going to happen in 2007 in XML? What are we
>>> going to talk about for the next 12 months? Which new technologies are
>>> going to birth industries? Which ones are going to flop? What are your
>>> predictions?
>>>
>>
>> Theres still a tons on unfinished important stuff:
>> - HTTP deprecated, move to HTTPS
>> - IPv4 deprecated, move to IPv6
>> - PHP4 deprecated, move to PHP5
>> - SMTP fixed
>> - CSS fixed on IE
>>
>> Is important to fix this to continue building internet. None of the
>> above are new or will be fixed this year, but work is due!
>>
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