Platform/Features/SPDY

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Status

SPDY
Stage Development
Status In progress
Release target Firefox 11
Health At risk
Status note Reviews underway. We are still aiming to get this in for FF10 (pref'd off) we need to land NPN support for NSS. The later should land within the next week. If we do get close, we may push this into FF11.

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Team

Product manager Chris Blizzard
Directly Responsible Individual Josh Aas
Lead engineer Pat McManus
Security lead Curtis Koenig
Privacy lead `
Localization lead `
Accessibility lead `
QA lead Ioana Budnar
UX lead `
Product marketing lead `
Operations lead `
Additional members `

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

SPDY is a transport protocol designed as a successor to HTTP as part of Google's make the web faster initiative. It is currently supported in google chrome, on most google web services, in the contendo and strangeloopnetworks CDNs, and will be used by the amazon silk tablet browser.

2. Users & use cases

Users of high latency environments such as mobile should be improved page load times for pages with many resources.

Casual browsing will be more secure with respect to eavesdropping.

Servers should see reduced load.

Independent low latency traffic should see reduced queuing delays.

3. Dependencies

Because all of SPDY runs on SSL, having SSL False Start done would be helpful:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658222

Also requires NPN support:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547312

4. Requirements

Interoperate with other spdy/2 implementations using high levels of concurrency.

Non-goals

SPDY over non-ssl.

Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

A SPDY implementation will wrap the existing HTTP implementation as a sort of in-browser proxy. This preserves all of the existing HTTP semantics and tools (e.g. firebug), while leveraging the on-the-wire benefits of SPDY.

6. User experience design

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Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528288

8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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Casual browsing will be more secure with respect to eavesdropping.

Servers should see reduced load.

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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658222

Also requires NPN support:

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Feature details

Priority P1
Rank 999
Theme / Goal `
Roadmap Platform
Secondary roadmap `
Feature list Platform
Project Responsiveness
Engineering team Networking

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Team status notes

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Security sec-review-complete Notes
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Quality assurance Signed off Test Plan
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Product marketing ` `
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