Just FYI.
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From: Mark Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: July 13, 2006 10:18:08 AM PDT
To: HTTP Working Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: HTTP Bar BoF Summary
We talked about potential work on 2616.
Everyone seemed to agree that cleaning up the document (e.g.,
folding in errata, documenting the extensibility model) is a clear
win. There was also considerable interest in going a bit further;
e.g., exploring implementation divergence, potentially deprecating
features that have proven to be interoperability problem, and
generating operational documentation. When asked, no one thought
that this level of activity was a bad idea, several stated keen
interest, and some indicated that they would be willing to
contribute actively.
No one indicated interest in working on "HTTP/1.2," but rather just
more clearly documenting 1.1. There was also interest in defining
extensions to HTTP, but those who spoke supported focusing on the
2616 cleanup first.
2617 was also discussed, in particular Digest authentication; while
there are some errata that could be incorporated in a backwards-
compatible fashion, several people raised issues that they thought
could only be addressed by a backwards-incompatible revision to
Digest (i.e., a new Digest-like HTTP authentication scheme within
the HTTP authentication framework). Again, there was broad support
for such work, and no detractors spoke up. There was some
discussion of whether this would be relevant to the activities in
the WAE BoF, but those who spoke felt that this effort had a
different scope, and would be most appropriate in an HTTP-focused WG.
It was agreed that the next steps to explore these items is to:
* Engage implementers, ideally holding an interop (either virtual
or real) to discover and explore various problem areas
* Write a problem statement exploring the issues to be addressed
more deeply
* Prepare a straw-man charter for an umbrella HTTP WG
* Request a BoF in San Diego
We then recessed to drink beer and eat French fries covered in
gravy and cheese.
Attendees:
- Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Scott Lawrence
- Lisa Dusseault
- Mark Baker
- Dave Raggett
- Carsten Bormann
- Cyrus Daboo
- Thomas Roessler
- Yngve Pettersen
- Alexei Melkinov
- Mark Nottingham
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Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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