Re: Time to refresh HTTP/2?

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 12:59:03PM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Am 28.08.2020 um 09:15 schrieb Martin Thomson:
> > All this tiresome talk about terminology got me thinking about the value of action over words.
> > 
> > So, I present to you a proposed update to RFC 7540:
> > 
> >    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-thomson-httpbis-http2bis-00
> > 
> > This only does:
> > 
> > * removes unnecessarily divisive terminology
> > * rolls up errata
> > 
> > Obviously, there is a long and slippery slope of things that we might do from this point.  However, I think that it would be good if we could just publish a minimal update without getting embroiled in difficult and time-consuming design questions.
> > 
> > The diff is mostly just stuff that xml2rfc does differently five years on:
> > 
> >    https://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url1=https://ietf.org/rfc/rfc7540.txt&url2=https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-thomson-httpbis-http2bis-00.txt
> > 
> > Or you can peruse the individual changes I made:
> > 
> >    https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/compare/master...martinthomson:main
> 
> +1
> 
> Actually, I was going to suggest that as well, but mainly to align
> HTTP/2 with the new core specs - it would be good to say how the cleanup
> affects the references from HTTP/2.

+1 as well. Wouldn't it be an opportunity to also reference (or even merge)
the extensions such as RFC8441 which adds the ":protocol" pseudo-header ?

Willy

Received on Friday, 28 August 2020 11:27:26 UTC