- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 17:17:44 PDT
- To: MACRIDES@sci.wfbr.edu
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
The reason for asking for a separate draft is because of a combination of factors, none of which depend on this being a 'big' idea: there is not yet apparent consensus on the idea, and also, so far we are handling proposed extensions to HTTP with separate drafts. The proposal changes frequently (Friday it was 'redo-safe', today it is 'safe') and it won't be clear what we're asking for consensus on until there is an internet draft on which we do Last Call. If we don't have a separate draft and apparent consensus on that separate draft, then we won't be able to add this to the standard. You might think it's unfair that proposals that were made before HTTP/1.1 became 'proposed standard' didn't require this extra level of nonsense, but this kind of inertia is necessary to achieve stability. Larry
Received on Monday, 7 October 1996 17:22:40 UTC