- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:45:39 +0200
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@mail.cern.ch>, jg@w3.org
* "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@mail.cern.ch> wrote: | Greetings, | | In discussion on a German-language usenet group, Bjoern Hoehrmann | has pointed out a surprising discrepancy between RFC2068 and RFC2616. | | It was not entirely clear to me where this should be reported, but | your email address is on the issues list page at W3C, so maybe this is | the place to try first. Amazing coincidence :-) I was going to ask at the HTTP WG Mailing List when your mail arrived. So let's ask there: | In section 3.7 "Media Types", the earlier RFC2068 refers correctly to | RFC2048 in relation to IANA registrations, but the later RFC still | refers to the obsoleted RFC1590. | | Looking at the history of these documents as noted at | http://www.w3.org/Protocols/History.html#HTTP11 | one finds that _all_ of the drafts (even the one which is described as | having become RFC2068) are citing the obsolete RFC1590. However, | RFC2068 itself had been corrected to cite RFC2048. | | As far as I could determine, the documents which set out the | differences between RFC2068 and the later drafts make no mention of | this difference - not even the ones which claim to show change-bars | >from RFC2068. So it appears that the correction must have been | slipped-in to RFC2068 at the last moment - and somehow left no tracks | on the main drafting sequence. | | I don't see any mention of this on the HTTP/1.1 Specification Errata | page at | http://www.agranat.com/fs/public/lawrence/http_errata.html | either. | | Maybe an item should be added to the errata, calling for the | reference to RFC1590 to be corrected to RFC2048? best regards, -- Björn Höhrmann ^ mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de ^ http://www.bjoernsworld.de am Badedeich 7 ° Telefon: +49(0)4667/981ASK ° http://www.websitedev.de/ 25899 Dagebüll # PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 # http://learn.to/quote +{i} --- All I want for Christmas is well-formedness -- Evan Lenz ---
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