Re: AD review of draft-ietf-httpbis-cice-01

>> I only have the question of why it doesn't "update" 7231.  I think it
>> updates Section 5.3.4, in that clients need to know that they might
>> now see "Accept-Encoding" in a response.  Without the "updates",
>> clients might be less likely to be changed to support this.  Let's
>> discuss this, please.
>
> We are updating the header field registry:
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-http-cice-latest.html#iana.considerations>.
> The assumption being that for those parts of HTTP which have IANA
> registries, the registry itself is the normative location to find the
> protocol description for a given element. This scales better than "updates"
> which always applies to a complete RFC.

A fair answer; thanks.  Consider that comment addressed.

Barry

Received on Wednesday, 22 July 2015 06:18:48 UTC