how to handle parallel requests and advertise server capability

[jvandegriff]

Should servers specify in their capabilities how many simultaneous connections (from a single client) are supported?

There are lots of issues with this! Load balancers are upstream and all requests to downstream servers come from this IP, although the remote-server id has the true client IP.

[jvandegriff]

possibly put in as a capability; does not need to urgently be in 3.0

[jvandegriff]

This would allow clients to know that simultaneous connections could result in a speedup�.

This is most closely related to an apache-style setting that allows specification of the maximum number of connections. Although apache does not expose this setting to the outside (security risk?)
The question is how valuable that would be to clients - it would take client complexity to handle it.

Maybe have a simple option canSupportSimultaneousRequests: yes / no