@techreport{ietf-hybi-design-space-00, number = {draft-ietf-hybi-design-space-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-hybi-design-space/00/}, author = {Jack Moffitt and Salvatore Loreto and Peter Saint-Andre and Stefano Salsano}, title = {{Design Space for Bidirectional Protocols}}, pagetotal = 9, year = 2010, month = jun, day = 28, abstract = {As technologies for bidirectional communication over HTTP have become pervasive, interest has grown in (1) defining improved mechanisms for support of existing technologies (short-term solutions such as new HTTP headers) and (2) the development of new bidirectional protocols (long-term solutions such as WebSocket, Bidirectional Web Transfer Protocol, and Reverse HTTP). In order to provide context for such work, this document provides a tentative map of the design space for bidirectional HTTP, with special attention to deployed infrastructure (e.g. web clients, intermediaries, firewalls, NATs, web servers) and programming environments.}, }