- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 22:30:10 PDT
- To: hta@uninett.no, moore@cs.utk.edu
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
The HTTP working group is making good progress toward completing the transition from Proposed to Draft Standard. At the meeting, we reviewed the open issues and made good progress on many of them. Some proposals for extensions to HTTP will result in 'Experimental' RFCs.A "HTTP/1.1 interoperability test" is being planned for testing implementations (browser, proxy, origin server) against each other. RFC 2109 (state management) has technical difficulties; it seems likely that we will recycle with a new draft that will be closer to current (interoperable) implementations, and with a revised (but not weakened) discussion of privacy considerations. Content negotiation has a broader scope than HTTP, and some of the work on it will result in work that may extend beyond HTTP-WG; others will result in Experimental RFCs. Our revised charter calls for being mainly complete with HTTP/1.1 by the December IETF, and with the possibility that the group may close or become dormant soon after. Larry Masinter HTTP-WG Chair
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