- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:56:14 -0700
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: discuss@apps.ietf.org
+ John Klensin On 2006/07/13, at 10:48 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > s/Melkinov/Melnikov/ > > Apologies to Alexei. Did I mangle anyone else's name, or miss anyone? > > > On 2006/07/13, at 1:18 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > >> >> We talked about potential work on 2616. >> >> Everyone seemed to agree that cleaning up the document (e.g., >> folding in errata, documenting the extensibility model) is a clear >> win. There was also considerable interest in going a bit further; >> e.g., exploring implementation divergence, potentially deprecating >> features that have proven to be interoperability problem, and >> generating operational documentation. When asked, no one thought >> that this level of activity was a bad idea, several stated keen >> interest, and some indicated that they would be willing to >> contribute actively. >> >> No one indicated interest in working on "HTTP/1.2," but rather >> just more clearly documenting 1.1. There was also interest in >> defining extensions to HTTP, but those who spoke supported >> focusing on the 2616 cleanup first. >> >> 2617 was also discussed, in particular Digest authentication; >> while there are some errata that could be incorporated in a >> backwards-compatible fashion, several people raised issues that >> they thought could only be addressed by a backwards-incompatible >> revision to Digest (i.e., a new Digest-like HTTP authentication >> scheme within the HTTP authentication framework). Again, there was >> broad support for such work, and no detractors spoke up. There was >> some discussion of whether this would be relevant to the >> activities in the WAE BoF, but those who spoke felt that this >> effort had a different scope, and would be most appropriate in an >> HTTP-focused WG. >> >> It was agreed that the next steps to explore these items is to: >> * Engage implementers, ideally holding an interop (either >> virtual or real) to discover and explore various problem areas >> * Write a problem statement exploring the issues to be addressed >> more deeply >> * Prepare a straw-man charter for an umbrella HTTP WG >> * Request a BoF in San Diego >> >> We then recessed to drink beer and eat French fries covered in >> gravy and cheese. >> >> Attendees: >> - Phillip Hallam-Baker >> - Scott Lawrence >> - Lisa Dusseault >> - Mark Baker >> - Dave Raggett >> - Carsten Bormann >> - Cyrus Daboo >> - Thomas Roessler >> - Yngve Pettersen >> - Alexei Melkinov >> - Mark Nottingham >> >> -- >> Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ >> >> > > > -- > Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ > > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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