[Technical Errata Reported] RFC7725 (5181)

The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7725,
"An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles".

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You may review the report below and at:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5181

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Stéphane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer+ietf@nic.fr>

Section: 3

Original Text
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   Link: <https://spqr.example.org/legislatione>; rel="blocked-by"


Corrected Text
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   Link: <https://search.example.net/legal>; rel="blocked-by"


Notes
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Of course, it is hard to say from just an URL but it seems that the original "blocked-by" mentioned the authority requesting the blocking (spqr = Roman Senate and People) while the text in section 4 says "The intent is that the header be used to identify the entity actually implementing blockage, not any other entity mandating it."

Experience with the 451 crawler during the IETF 99 hackathon showed that several implementors got this wrong and used a "blocked-by" indicating the authority.

[It could be a good idea to have two links, one for the authority and one for the implementor, but this is outside the scope of this errata.]

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RFC7725 (draft-ietf-httpbis-legally-restricted-status-04)
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Title               : An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles
Publication Date    : February 2016
Author(s)           : T. Bray
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis
Area                : Applications and Real-Time
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG

Received on Saturday, 11 November 2017 04:06:22 UTC