Networking/Archive/TeamPriorities

Please see Networking/IndividualPriorities for individual team member priorities.

Team Priorities

This list is meant to keep track of work we'd like to get done as a team, in prioritized order.

1. Remove all synchronous APIs that can do i/o from the disk cache.
2. 658222: TLS False Start for SPDY
3. 783205: In-browser networking dashboard
4. Support DASH for adaptive streaming with HTML5 WebM video
5. Support DASH for adaptive streaming with HTML5 h.264 video
6. 421128: Independent windows/tabs should not starve each other for network connections
7. 660749: (CVE-2011-0082) Firefox doesn't (re)validate certificates when loading a HTTPS page from the cache
8. 790370: Windows proxy discovery via WPAD needs caching
9. Windows auth API jank
10. 791750: Make it possible to deliver stream data off the main thread
11. 562917: Captive portal detection
12. 651246: Make libpkix-based certificate path building/validation the default in PSM
13. 436414: OCSP client should be able to use HTTP GET as well as POST
14. 773648: integrate libunbound for our own DNS host resolver
15. 793808: Add support for resized image proxy (reduce mobile bandwidth usage).
16. 733647: Implement TLS 1.1 (RFC 4346) in Gecko (Firefox, Thunderbird), on by default
17. Start work on Necko for Servo, written in Rust
18. Add support for compressed HTML proxy (reduce mobile bandwidth usage).
19. Concurrent cache reads
20. 665707: Ability to attach arbitrary data to cache entries, such as decompressed image data for images.
21. Work on a fundamentally better protocol, perhaps UDP-based.
22. 480514: Implement TLS 1.2 (RFC 5246)