- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 00:06:27 PST
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
The area directors want a summary of the meeting before the week's end. This is what I sent them (I'd cc'd http-wg but mistyped the mailing list address.) Hopefully we'll get the minutes out by the end of next week, including minutes of the Thursday afternoon session. ================================================================ HTTP/1.0 has been submitted to become an Informational RFC. We are focusing on getting a proposed standard for a new version of HTTP with an aggressive schedule: submission of a Proposed Standard by May 1. This schedule will mean dropping some issues and features in this first standards-track version and considering them for standardization in a subsequent version. Of top priority are those fixes that will help relieve HTTP-caused Internet congestion: host identification, caching, persistent connections. We had formed a number of subgroups to evaluate the HTTP/1.1 draft. In our two originally scheduled meetings, we reviewed the subgroup's conclusions and open issues, in the areas of caching, persistent connections, content negotiation, state management, range retrieval, authentication, extension methods, and extension methods. In addition, we also had a lively and productive interaction with the WTS members where HTTP security work is proceeding, and a third meeting on Thursday to triage our task list and assign ownership: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/Issues/http-wg.html Jim Gettys is now the lead editor.
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