Re: (revised) HTTP working group status
Koen Holtman (koen@win.tue.nl)
Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:43:19 +0200 (MET DST)
Larry Masinter:
[...]
>PLEASE send me any corrections.
[...]
>- content negotiation: draft-holtman-http-negotiation-02.txt
> Andy Mutz will co-edit with Koen Holtman.
> Active discussion in the working group on details.
> (I also have private mail suggesting that W3C may also
> contribute, but no details or timetable.)
>
>- User Agent characteristics: draft-mutz-http-attributes-01.txt
> Aug 1 draft ties in with content negotiation proposal; needs
> non-numeric attributes.
`needs needs non-numeric attributes' is a but ambiguous. More
accurate is `future version will use non-numeric attributes'. And at
the end of the `content negotiation' paragraph: `future version will
define non-numeric attributes'.
- - -
Please also put these issues on the list:
- there is a desire to make a shared recommendation on the use of the
1.1 version number
- when creating 1.1, we used the following rule a number of times:
Any proposed HTTP/1.1 features not in HTTP/1.0 for which there is no
consensus will revert to HTTP/1.0 status in 1.1 and be considered for
inclusion in HTTP/1.2.
This rule also implies a promise that deferred proposals would not
disappear into the bit bucket. I therefore propose an action item to
gather such `not 1.1' things from the 1.1 issues list and record them
in a document, to be passed on to any future 1.2 WG. (By the way,
have we decided already that this WG would not do 1.2?)
>Larry
Koen.