Re: [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC7540 (4925)

Folks, please have a look at this and confirm that this is the intent.

Martin, I'm assuming the status we want is HOLD FOR DOCUMENT UPDATE?

Thanks,


> On 7 Feb 2017, at 2:49 pm, RFC Errata System <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org> wrote:
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> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7540,
> "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)".
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> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7540&eid=4925
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> Type: Editorial
> Reported by: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
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> Section: GLOBAL
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> Original Text
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> Corrected Text
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> Notes
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> It's unclear from the text whether PRIORITY frames affect stream states (as shown in the state machine in Section 5.1).  The original intent was that prioritization of streams was independent of the mechanics of opening and closing streams, but this was not consistently captured.
> 
> Two small additions to the document would help considerably.
> 
> In Section 5.3 (Stream Priority) add a new paragraph:
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>> The information that an endpoint maintains for stream priority is separate from other state. Importantly, this includes stream states (Section 5.1).  A stream in any state can have its priority changed with a PRIORITY frame. The state of a stream is not changed as a result of changing its priority.  The number of streams for which state is remembered is at the discretion of an endpoint, see Section 5.3.4 for details.
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> In Section 6.4 (PRIORITY) a new sentence at the end of the first paragraph:
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>> Sending or receiving a PRIORITY frame does not affect the state of any stream (Section 5.1), only the priority of streams is altered.
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> RFC7540 (draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-17)
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> Title               : Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)
> Publication Date    : May 2015
> Author(s)           : M. Belshe, R. Peon, M. Thomson, Ed.
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis APP
> Area                : Applications
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG
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Received on Tuesday, 7 February 2017 04:08:12 UTC