Re: Issue 271 of 5987bis - Proposed Standard or Internet Standard?

On 2017-01-16 04:33, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> On 2017/01/16 10:29, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> Personal hat -
>>
>> I'd prefer Proposed Standard; I don't think we want to overly promote
>> the use of this encoding in new header fields, so calling it an
>> Internet Standard sends the wrong message.
>
> Fully agreed!
>
> Also, Julian mentioned that it might be additional work to move it to
> full Standard, but if this is ever necessary, it can happen as part of

No, I didn't (as far as I remember).

> moving HTTP 1.1 to full standard, with very little overhead.

That's an interesting proposal; however, I'd be very surprised if those 
who don't want it to be full standard would support integration into the 
next set of base specs.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 16 January 2017 06:47:38 UTC