- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:25:13 +1100
- To: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
The draft reviving the Link header <https://datatracker.ietf.org/ public/idindex.cgi?command=id_detail&id=14833> expired a few weeks ago, and I've received questions from a number of different folks about its status, because they want to use it. The -00 draft <http://www.mnot.net/drafts/draft-nottingham-http-link- header-00.txt> was pretty much a cut-and-paste of the text from 2068's appendix, so that there wouldn't be any conflicts with existing users of the header. One request I received was to align the header with current usage of the Link element in HTML <http:// www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#edef-LINK>, e.g.: * Remove the "rev" attribute (apparently, this is happening in HTML5). * Remove the "anchor" attribute, or specify requirements for UAs more closely. * Add a "media" attribute, to allow stylesheets to be used. My concern is that significantly changing the existing syntax or semantics may make getting it out the door a problem, and my inclination is to leave it as is, because extension parameters can always be defined, and most of the uses I've seen for this aren't for UAs, but rather for building new protocols (e.g., OpenID). Do people have any thoughts? Is the -00 draft good enough? -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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