- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 22:39:18 +0100
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2016-10-30 19:18, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > -------- > In message <CABkgnnWVB3mnkGn9OmvgmLU7yDww40OQ_0pp_HeNdziqGYA0og@mail.gmail.com>, Martin Thoms > on writes: > > >> The main assertion that this assumes is this: content codings should >> be self-descriptive. > > I think this is the right way to go. When we discussed this, I had > to twist my brain silly to come up with examples, and they were all > clearly strawmen. > > I wish we had a pool of "HTTP design principles" somewhere we could > add decisions like this to, for future reference. We discussed this in yesterday's WG meeting, and I mentioned that we could document this in a future revision of the core specs as consideration for new content codings, and that we should add a gitgub issue for that. That said, Poul-Henning already opened one last month - see <https://github.com/httpwg/http11bis/issues/21>. Best regards, Julian
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