Re: HTTP/1.1: They're done.

Congratulations!

/Sal

On Jun 7, 2014, at 5:09 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> Just a quick note -
> 
> The revision of HTTP/1.1’s specification, obsoleting RFC2616, is complete.
> 
> See:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230 - Message Syntax and Routing
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231 - Semantics and Content
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7232 - Conditional Requests
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7233 - Range Requests
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234 - Caching
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7235 - Authentication
> 
> Along with the related documents:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7236 - Authentication Scheme Registrations
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7237 - Method Registrations
> 
> Thanks to everyone who has commented upon, reviewed and otherwise contributed to them over this nearly seven-year(!) effort.
> 
> Special thanks to our Area Directors over the years: Lisa Dusseault, Alexey Melnikov, Peter Saint-Andre and Barry Leiba, along with Yves Lafon, who helped edit Range Requests.
> 
> Finally, please warmly thank both Roy Fielding and Julian Reschke the next time you see them (I believe beer would be appreciated); the amount of effort that they put into these documents is far, far more than they originally signed up for, and they’ve done an excellent job.
> 
> Now, onwards to HTTP/2...
> 
> P.S. This document set’s completion also has enabled the publication of these related non-WG documents:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7238 - The Hypertext Transfer Protocol Status Code 308 (Permanent Redirect)
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7239 - Forwarded HTTP Extension
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7240 - Prefer Header for HTTP
> 
> --
> Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/
> 
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Received on Sunday, 8 June 2014 13:19:42 UTC