- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:41:22 -0700
- To: rlgray@raleigh.ibm.com
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
> This thread of discussion, however, does raise the question of why > backward compatibility is not required by the spec (since it is an > issue sure to be addressed by implementers). It was, in earlier drafts, but various people insisted that it be removed. > This leads me to another question: I have seen some discussion > in the archives of what version an implementation should claim, but > nothing definitive (maybe I missed it). When is it safe for an > implementation to claim "HTTP/1.1" compliance (in terms of standards > milestones)? As of the beginning of last month (when the IESG accepted draft 07 as an RFC without any major changes). It is now unlikely that any significant protocol requirements will be added without a corresponding bump in the version number, which is my definition of being safe to claim "HTTP/1.1" compliance, since there *will* be many implementations calling themselves HTTP/1.1 before the spec can be revised again. .....Roy
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