Wow Google is really on a roll. With their mobile operating system Android doing great, Chrome OS to be launched soon, their programming language - what's next? Well now they are working on a replacement to the http protocol. SPDY is the name and my first impression is very positive. I read the whitepaper describing what the goals are and it's good. The http protocol has been around for literally forever, or 1996 to be exact. The protocol was designed to serve web pages to viewers. The problem is web pages have changed drastically many times over since 1996.
The new protocol is an application layer protocol meaning the world doesn't need to change to use this. The TCP protocol is still used to move the data around but SPDY makes the data much more smarter. For starters it uses compression. SPDY also allows for more communication between the client and server. Currently only the client can make download requests, with SPDY the server can 'tell you' more information about what to get and not get. Currently headers are redundant and over used. SPDY aims to simplify headers and ultimately make the data smaller and faster to move to the client.
I encourage readers to view the white paper. It's interesting to see how this will move the web forward.
