Re: About that Host: header....
John C Klensin (klensin@mail1.reston.mci.net)
Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:59:44 -0500
>While I agree with John I believe that we need to give something more than a
>few weeks notice of a major change. There are some people who are very keen
>to have a 1.1 spec out in time for the May 1st parade (oops wrong country).
Phill,
I'm one of the people who is very keen to have a 1.1 spec out before May.
I'm even more keen, from my MCI perspective, to start telling vendors about
things we insist that they do in order for us to buy their products... a
list that prominently features "things that make service-bureau-like Web
sites manageable and keep the net from melting down". I have an extremely
strong preference for stating those requirements in terms of reference to
the words in a standards-track document. Why?
(i) Because it is The Right Thing To Do and
(ii) I really believe that a WG rough consensus position is more likely
to be correct --by virtue of reflecting analysis from
more different perspectives-- than anything I (or my
organization come up with by myself (ourselves)