Re: Fwd: draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-04 comments
Dave Kristol (dmk@research.bell-labs.com)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:17:48 -0400 (EDT)
"Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu> wrote:
> > JG:
> >I've changed all references to inbound to upstream and outbound to downstream
> >in the document.
>
> YIKES! Please don't do that. Every stream (request or response) has both
> an upstream (where it came from) and a downstream (where it is going)
> based on the direction of the stream. In contrast, inbound and
> outbound refer to the request path where the origin server is always
> the most inbound server and the user agent is always the most outbound.
> In other words, the first two change directionality based on whether
> it is a request or a response, whereas the second two do not.
I'm inclined to agree with Roy, with the following additional caveat:
please define "upstream" and "downstream". They always confuse me and,
I suspect, others. Please don't say "it's obvious". I don't know
whether requests flow upstream or downstream.
Dave Kristol