Content-Disposition next steps

Hi there,

the ongoing discussions are very interesting, as they are relevant to 
most stuff we do in Part 1 through 7 as well.

My take-away is:

- there's disagreement about whether we should require specific handling 
of invalid messages

- if implementers want to do so, they are free to do that in a separate 
informational document

But...

- we should keep in mind that every cycle we spend on this discussion 
keeps us from doing other stuff, and many over here feel that other 
things have a higher priority

- for C-D, the *real* problem isn't lacking interop for invalid 
messages, but lack of interop for *valid* messages

So I'd encourage to de-couple this discussion from the actual 
Content-Disposition spec, and let those who want work on that as a 
separate activity (the question of whether that should become a WG work 
item will be interesting).

I'd like to get C-D to IETF LC as soon as possible, thus get everything 
*else* we can resolve done in the next days.

The currently open issues are at 
<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/query?component=content-disp>, 
and I believe this list contains open tickets that can be closed as 
duplicates (Mark?).

Also, I'm going to say that I consider the work on tests, and 
documenting the current UA problems in a single place was a success. We 
got minor problems fixed in Opera and Konqueror, Mozilla is likely to 
improve soon, and the Chrome nightly builds now have RFC 5987 support.

I believe we should continue this work with other header fields, and a 
quite obvious candidate would be "Content-Type", which incidentally has 
two related HTML WG issues 
(<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/125> and 
<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/126>).

Best regards, Julian

Received on Sunday, 7 November 2010 13:40:22 UTC