Re: Issue 72, was: Status of IANA Considerations (registrations and registries) -- issues 40, 59, 72, 79

Mark Nottingham wrote:
> 
> Looks good from here, and yes, this should be a WG item.
 > ...

<http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/browser/draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations/latest>

> Q: any more thoughts about whether to add things like safety, 
> idempotence to the registry?
> ...

I have added "safeness" to the registration "template" (in quotes 
because it currently isn't really a template) -- 
<http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/286>.

The relevant sections now read:

3.1.  Method Registry

    The HTTP Method Registry defines the name space for the Method token
    in the Request line of an HTTP request.

    Registrations MUST include the following fields:

    o  Method Name (see Section 3)

    o  Safe ("yes" or "no", see Section 8.1.1)

    o  Pointer to specification text

    Values to be added to this name space are subject to IETF review
    ([RFC5226], Section 4.1).  Any document registering new method names
    should be traceable through statuses of either 'Obsoletes' or
    'Updates' to this document.

    The registry itself is maintained at
    <http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-methods>.

and

11.1.  Method Registry

    The registration procedure for HTTP Methods is defined by Section 3.1
    of this document.

    The HTTP Method Registry located at
    <http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-methods> should be populated
    with the registrations below:

    +---------+------+-------------+
    | Method  | Safe | Reference   |
    +---------+------+-------------+
    | CONNECT | no   | Section 8.9 |
    | DELETE  | no   | Section 8.7 |
    | GET     | yes  | Section 8.3 |
    | HEAD    | yes  | Section 8.4 |
    | OPTIONS | yes  | Section 8.2 |
    | POST    | no   | Section 8.5 |
    | PUT     | no   | Section 8.6 |
    | TRACE   | yes  | Section 8.8 |
    +---------+------+-------------+


As usually, this raises more questions:

- Is the explanation of "safeness" sufficient?

- Did I get the values for the HTTP/1.1 methods right? (what about 
CONNECT and TRACE?)

BR, Julian

Received on Friday, 18 July 2008 11:52:41 UTC