- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 15:40:04 -0500
- To: Alex Hopmann <alex.hopmann@resnova.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Alex Hopmann writes: > Peter Churchyard wrote: > >I would like to propose that content negotiation is removed from http 1.1 > Ouch! I really would like to resist this idea- I consider content > negotiation to be one of the greatest priorities of this group. The > currently popular content negotiation mechanism is user-agent: which is a > SERIOUS problem for the HTTP community to be able to have some sort of > common standards. > > That said, I must admit that I personally don't have any brilliant solutions > for the problems posed by content negotiation. I just think its too > important to abandon so quickly. I agree on Alex' point of view. Before starting a huge discussion on this important topic - Larry, Simon - what is the status of the content negotiation subgroup? Thanks -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, <frystyk@w3.org> World-Wide Web Consortium, MIT/LCS NE43-356 545 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139, USA
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