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Rack Next is a rather inconvenient project name. I also don't think Rack 2.0 is appropriate as this project, other than being inspired by Rack, has no connection to it. A play on the name Rack might be a good starting point.

I've spent along time experimenting with streaming HTTP, with the purpose of making HTTP/2 simple.
I've always admired the simplicity of Rack. My experiments have bourne fruit but it is currently in Elixir.

Here is where I introduce my solution and thought it might be of interest. I don't think there is any reason a similar solution would not be possible in ruby.

https://elixirforum.com/t/raxx-interface-for-http-webservers-frameworks-and-clients/9380/1

Other thoughts on the future of Rack cab be found here: https://github.com/tenderlove/the_metal

Rack Next is going to rely heavily on parsers. A decision needs to be made on what parsing library to use. Performance is most critical, but I'm willing to prioritise the readability and maintainability of one library, over marginal performance gains of another.

Also to consider, the parsing library should support compilation to plain Ruby to avoid it being a runtime dependancy.

ESAPI, no Ruby?
Are there intersections with this project?
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Enterprise_Security_API#tab=Project_Details
Can we accommodate this: http://modsecurity.org/
Is there a possible export function which would wrap a Rack::App in a bucket to throw towards an ASIC? Possibly coded with mRuby?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit

MarkT