Transport
HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0:
- Design flaws and implementation problems
HTTP/1.1:
- Addresses some of these problems
- 60% server support
- Performance benefits! (60% packet traffic reduction)
- Is acting as fire-fighter
- Not sufficiently flexible or extensible
HTTP/NG:
- Radical redesign using object-oriented technologies
- Undergoing trials
- Gradual transition (using proxies)
- Integration of application (distributed searching?)