Re: Proposal on removing Content Negotiation from http 1.1

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

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