- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:12:46 -0700
- To: Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org, Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net>
On Jul 22, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Ruben Verborgh wrote: > Dear all, > > On the Hydra mailing list, the topic of "referring to the HTTP spec" came up [1]. > > What is the best way to refer to "HTTP 1.1 as a whole" > as a normative reference in a technical document, > given that the specification now consists of multiple RFCs? It depends on why you are referencing it. HTTP as a general concept would just be a link to the first document (RFC7230) as described in http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7230 since it includes the others by reference. If the reference is a normative dependency, then I would reference each RFC that is a dependency. Likewise, I would reference all of the documents if the intent is to have the reader look at all of them. ....Roy
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