- From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:01:25 -0700
- To: "'IANA'" <iana@iana.org>
- Cc: hardie@qualcomm.com, "'Scott Hollenbeck'" <sah@428cobrajet.net>, bjoern@hoehrmann.de, ietf-http-wg@w3.org, "'William A. Rowe, Jr.'" <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
In http://www.iana.org/numbers.html, I suggest making them both
"FCFS with specification recommended", because it is not
explicitly required (says SHOULD).
Note that RFC 2817 HTTP status codes and HTTP upgrade tokens
are also HTTP parameters, so I wonder about combining these
two registries without combining all of the other ones associated
with HTTP. Also,
HTTP Status Codes RFC3293 RFC and FCFS (section 10.2)
but this is really RFC 2817, isn't it?
In http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters
I suggest you remove the text:
# If you are looking for the HTTP data types, you should look in the
# file "url-schemes".
# See: http://www.iana.org/assignments/url-schemes
I think this text is confusing. HTTP relies on many IANA registered
values, including character sets, media types, and language tags,
as well as the other above registries for status codes and upgrade
tokens, but doesn't directly rely on the URI scheme registry.
I think the specification for all of the transfer-coding and content-coding
values should be RFC 2616; do you want to give explicit section numbers?
For HTTP Transfer codings, I would add "identity" and note that it
was withdrawn in the errata.
=======================================================================
HTTP Content-Coding Values
Name Description Reference
------ ------------------------------------- ---------
compress UNIX "compress" program method [RFC2616] section 3.5
deflate "zlib" format[RFC1950] with
with "deflate" compression[RFC2616] [RFC2616] section 3.5
gzip Same as GNU zip[RFC1952] [RFC2616] section 3.5
HTTP Transfer Coding Values
Name Description Reference
------ ------------------------------------- ---------
chunked Transfer in a series of chunks [RFC2616] Section 3.6.1
compress UNIX "compress" program method [RFC2616] section 3.6
deflate "zlib" format[RFC1950] with
with "deflate" compression[RFC2616] [RFC2616] section 3.6
gzip Same as GNU zip[RFC1952] [RFC2616] section 3.6
identity (withdrawn in errata to RFC 2616) [RFC2616] section 3.6
Received on Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:01:12 UTC