Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-nottingham-structured-headers-00.txt

PHK and I have been talking in the background about how to progress the "Common Headers" work item. 

Last week we put together a straw-man of what I thought we might want the eventual product to look like. Please have a look; it'd be interesting to see how close/far this is from where we want to go.

Note that it *is* pretty thrown together, and there are a couple of TBDs. I'm also certain that the algorithms are buggy as can be.

The interesting things to discuss here IMO are:

* Are the basic data types offered the right ones? Too many, too few?
* Should parameters on parameterised labels be ordered or unordered (since writing that, I've found a use case for ordered)?
* Are the limited levels of structure (most complex being a list of parameterised labels) sufficient?
* Is limiting size and number of elements appropriate? Are the limits proposed the right ones (warning: bikeshed)?
* Is saying that non-ASCII content can use the binary content type + UTF-8 sufficient?
* Is the parsing too strict, not strict enough, or just right?

Etc.

Cheers,

P.S. Pretty version at:
  https://mnot.github.io/I-D/structured-headers/


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> From: internet-drafts@ietf.org
> Subject: New Version Notification for draft-nottingham-structured-headers-00.txt
> Date: 30 October 2017 at 11:50:24 am AEDT
> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@varnish-cache.org>, "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>
> 
> 
> A new version of I-D, draft-nottingham-structured-headers-00.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Mark Nottingham and posted to the
> IETF repository.
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> Name:		draft-nottingham-structured-headers
> Revision:	00
> Title:		Structured Headers for HTTP
> Document date:	2017-10-30
> Group:		Individual Submission
> Pages:		16
> URL:            https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-nottingham-structured-headers-00.txt
> Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-structured-headers/
> Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-structured-headers-00
> Htmlized:       https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-nottingham-structured-headers-00
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> 
> Abstract:
>   This document describes Structured Headers, a way of simplifying HTTP
>   header field definition and parsing.  It is intended for use by new
>   HTTP header fields.
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