Re: Adrian Farrel's Discuss on status-change-http-status-code-308-ps-01: (with DISCUSS)

On 2014-12-30 10:58, Adrian Farrel wrote:
> Adrian Farrel has entered the following ballot position for
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> I'd make an argument that the Standards Track version of this work
> should be an Update of 7231 since it changes a statement made in that
> RFC.
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> 7238 says...
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>     Therefore, initial use of status code 308 will be restricted to cases
>     where the server has sufficient confidence in the client's
>     understanding the new code or when a fallback to the semantics of
>     status code 300 is not problematic.
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> How is this text valid in the Standards Track revision of this document?

It reflects reality, so it is valid, no matter how the document is 
published.

If the spec was revised for publication as Proposed Standard, we'd 
likely keep this information.

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Best regards, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 30 December 2014 10:20:09 UTC