- From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:39:13 -0400
- To: "Brian Smith" <brian@briansmith.org>, <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
At 8:00 AM -0700 3/13/08, Brian Smith wrote: >How does RFC 2277 fit into the standardization process. RFC 2277 itself >says "This document is the current policies being applied by the >Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) towards the standardization >efforts in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in order to help >Internet protocols fulfill these requirements." I take that to mean that >the IESG will reject any specification that is not compliant with RFC >2277 as a matter of policy. And you would take it wrong. The IESG isn't a machine: they look at what makes sense. A backwards-incompatible change, for example, doesn't make sense. Further, because 2616 >> 2277, you can tell that the IESG thought that HTTP was already conformant enough. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium
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