- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:49:56 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Added: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/issues/#i46
On 2006/11/12, at 4:43 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> RFC1700 ("ASSIGNED NUMBERS") has been obsoleted by RFC3232
> ("Assigned Numbers: RFC 1700 is Replaced by an On-line Database").
>
> draft-gettys-http-v11-spec-rev-00 (<http://tools.ietf.org/html/
> draft-gettys-http-v11-spec-rev-00>) just updates the reference,
> which I think is a bug.
>
> In fact, RFC2616 refers to RCF1700
>
> (1) for the definition of the default TCP port (<http://www.w3.org/
> Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/draft-lafon-
> rfc2616bis-01.html#rfc.section.1.4.p.11>), (2) for a reference to
> the character set registry (<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/
> rfc2616bis/draft-lafon-rfc2616bis-01.html#rfc.section.3.4>) and
> (3) for a reference to the media type registry (<http://www.w3.org/
> Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/draft-lafon-
> rfc2616bis-01.html#rfc.section.3.7>).
>
> I propose to remove the reference, and to make the following changes:
>
> (1) Replace reference with in-lined URL of the IANA port registry
> (ironically, <http://www.iana.org/> is down while I write this so I
> don't have the URL .-),
>
> (2) Replace the first reference with the in-lined URL of the IANA
> character set registry, and drop the second one, and
>
> (3) Drop the reference, as the next sentence refers to the Media
> Type Registration Process anyway.
>
> Best regards, Julian
>
>
>
>
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