Re: Protocol Action: 'Character Set and Language Encoding for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Header Field Parameters' to Proposed Standard

(FYI)

On 30.04.2010 15:58, The IESG wrote:
> The IESG has approved the following document:
>
> - 'Character Set and Language Encoding for Hypertext Transfer Protocol
>     (HTTP) Header Field Parameters '
>     <draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http-12.txt>  as a Proposed Standard
>
> This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an
> IETF Working Group.
>
> The IESG contact person is Alexey Melnikov.
>
> A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http-12.txt
>
> Technical Summary
>
>     This specification defines a simplified mechanism for encoding
>     arbitrary (e.g. non-ASCII) characters in HTTP header field parameters.
>
>     By default, message header field parameters in Hypertext Transfer
>     Protocol (HTTP) messages can not carry characters outside the ISO-
>     8859-1 character set.  RFC 2231 defines an escaping mechanism for use
>     in Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) headers.  This
>     document specifies a profile of that encoding suitable for use in
>     HTTP header fields.
>
>     There are multiple HTTP header fields that already use RFC 2231
>     encoding in practice (Content-Disposition) or might use it in the
>     future (Link).  The purpose of this document is to provide a single
>     place where the generic aspects of RFC 2231 encoding in HTTP header
>     fields are defined.
>
> Working Group Summary
>
>     This document is an individual submission, but has been reviewed
>     on the HTTP mailing list.
>
> Document Quality
>
>     This document is a clarification and simplification of an existing
>     protocol specification, and reviewers indicate the simplifications
>     are well-judged and match practical use in HTTP.
>
>     Also, the draft claims that, as of January 2010, there were at least
>     three independent implementations of the encoding defined in Section
>     3.2: Konqueror (trunk), Mozilla Firefox, and Opera.
>
> Personnel
>
>     Graham Klyne is the Document Shepherd for this document.
>     Alexey Melnikov is the Responsible Area Director
>
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