Re: Call For Adoption HTTPbis BCP56bis

> On Oct 11, 2017, at 11:51 AM, Patrick McManus <pmcmanus@mozilla.com> wrote:
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> Folks, I'm going to open up a 2 week call for adoption period to see if the group has consensus for adopting work on a bis version of BCP56 (aka RFC 3205; On the use of HTTP as a Substrate).
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> Mark introduced this work both on the general ART list and with a presentation at IETF 99.
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> His draft, which is the subject of the adoption call, can be found https://mnot.github.io/I-D/bcp56bis/ <https://mnot.github.io/I-D/bcp56bis/>
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> The ART discussion is archived here: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/art/current/msg00303.html <https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/art/current/msg00303.html>
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> The presentation at IETF 99 is here:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/99/materials/slides-99-httpbis-sessb-bcp56bis/ <https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/99/materials/slides-99-httpbis-sessb-bcp56bis/> (That's a pdf - trust your content-types!)
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> The minutes from IETF 99 are here: https://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/minutes?item=minutes-99-httpbis-00.html <https://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/minutes?item=minutes-99-httpbis-00.html>
> Personally, I think this is an important document to update, and contemporaneous efforts like JMAP and DOH illustrate the relevancy.


Absolutely agree. It’s an important, but somewhat outdated, document. We should adopt this, and make it reflect current best practices and protocol improvements.

Cheers,

— Leif