- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 13:37:21 PST
- To: dave@navisoft.com
- Cc: fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Roy: >>DELETE, TRACE and WRAPPED should stay. The rest can be moved to other >>drafts. Dave Long: >> If we have PUT it would be awfully nice to retain DELETE! The question that the area directors and IESG always ask, with regard to features in a proposed standard, is whether they've recieved adequate review to believe that they represent consensus of the community. I don't think that 'logical completeness' is a useful criteria for us to use in the decision of "does this go in HTTP/1.1 or put off for an extension or a later version". My reason for suggesting that DELETE, TRACE and WRAPPED not be in 1.1 is my perception that 1) there are likely to be disagreements about their form (pure conjecture) 2) we've not discussed them (hypermail pointer to discussion/consensus about these in our mail archive?) 3) there are no current implementations (pointers to existing implementations and their docuemntation?) 4) the form that these operations exist in within the HTTP/1.1 specification has not had adequate review (list of HTTP-WG members who claim to have reviewed these sections carefully?) At least for items (2) - (4), counter evidence cheerfully accepted.
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