Persistent connections

By itself, I don’t think they will succeed against Netscape hack, as it hurts Time to Render
Need multiplexing layer to solve time to render problem (have preliminary design in hand)
Prototyping mux layer for HTTP 1.x right now, with provisions for multiple protocols over the same connection, to allow graceful NG transition
Transition to a MUX layer has all the same deployment problems of NG, but requires much less work than NG for clients and servers to implement
Mux layer can be done quickly