Re: Issue 188, was: Content/Transfer-Codings organization/IANA considerations (issue 143, 188, 189)

Closing issue.


On 08/08/2009, at 12:27 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I just spent some time looking at issue 143, which is about  
>> updating both IANA registration procedures and the registry contents.
>> While doing that, I noticed that there are more changes we should do:
>> 1) find an RFC 5226 defined IANA policy for the registration
>> Note that <http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters>  
>> currently says:
>> "First Come First Served with specification recommended"
>> while RFC 2616 did state:
>> "New content-coding value tokens SHOULD be registered; to allow  
>> interoperability between clients and servers, specifications of the  
>> content coding algorithms needed to implement a new value SHOULD be  
>> publicly available and adequate for independent implementation, and  
>> conform to the purpose of content coding defined in this section."
>> (so no mention of first come first serve)
>> (new issue: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/188>)
>> ...
>
> We discussed this in Stockholm, and consensus in the room was that  
> we want to require a specification plus expert review (see RFC 5226,  
> Section 4.1).
>
> I have rephrased the sections in Part 1 (Transfer Codings) and Part  
> 3 (Content Codings) accordingly; see <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/670 
> >.
>
> BR, Julian
>


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