Web Transport Requirements

Fast, efficient transaction support

Current work in the IETF and elsewhere is already addressing how to make transactions fast on the Internet, including the following two issues.

• Start data send before connection is up
• Don't re-establish state

Supporting speculative traffic

Several ways of using speculation are being developed in the Web. Speculation requires a way to send traffic in background, to not affect (foreground) direct requests and responses, or other non-Web traffic.

• Differentiate prefetching and preloading vs. direct transfers

Supporting speculative transfers

The file transfer protocol itself can be modified to operate more efficiently for speculative traffic.

• Speculative traffic can affect the file transfer protocol

Fast, efficient transaction support

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