- From: Koen Holtman <kholtman@mail.cern.ch>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:04:05 +0100 (MET)
- To: discuss@apps.ietf.org
- cc: mpresler@us.ibm.com, Koen Holtman <Koen.Holtman@cern.ch>
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Scott Lawrence wrote: > > From: mpresler@us.ibm.com > > Subject: HTTP Extensions Framework status? > > > I saw that a new draft was issued in March, but that's > > expired, and I > > can't find anything further. Can anyone enlighten me as to > > the status of > > this work? > > We've been trying to get it published as an RFC. One data point: I asked Keith Moore about the status at WWW8 (May this year), he told me that they were thinking about it, but it did not sound like anything would happen soon. > So far, there has been support within the IESG for making it an > Experimental, but that would make it a no-no to reference in > standards-track documents. Since there are a number of things that > would like to use it and go to standards-track, we are trying to get > that changed. I guess I should mention here that I am one of the main proponents of making it experimental only, at least until we have more experience etc, and I have told the IESG so. I'm not convinced that using the -ext- framework is superior to just defining some new methods/headers. Koen.
Received on Wednesday, 1 December 1999 04:06:49 UTC