GP/TFA is not talking about transport layer latency, but about application layer latency (incurred by the protocol). Hence he is not confusing things too much: 'overall transfer' time you talk about is the 'web latency' that TFA talks about. Er... yes, I might have read it, sorry about that. They are certainly not aiming to improve/fix TCP from applicaiton layer, but what they are trying to fix is the fact that that the http protocol had been designed for single, short request and a single, possibly lengthy response, which typically gets rendered as it is arriving (transfer of the hyper-text, which is basically err.. text, with possibly hypers in it). Today, with all the ajax, streams, uploads, etc... we have quite a different scenario and there is room for improvement. Now, if only someone would fix mail protocols.

That's nothing. Once I had to wait for my consciousness to spontaneously emerge from within a primitive network called internet before I could rule the universe.

That's a crosspire, you insensitive clod.

After reading through evolutionists and creationists views in this discussion I think everybody (as in the-whole-society) would benefit from attempt from both groups at the following question:

Why did god create /. ?

(with a sub-theme: Is /. the missing meta-link ?)

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