Introducing a new HTTP response header for Carbon Emissions calculation

Hi, (newbie here)

I submitted a new I-D to define a simple HTTP response header field with the amount of CO2-eq in grams emitted by the processing of the request and the production of the response: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-martin-http-carbon-emissions-scope-2/

Example:
Carbon-Emissions-Scope-2: 0.0000456

The goal:
If HTTP servers are able to calculate or estimate this value, it will allow clients and applications to assess their Scope 3 carbon emissions. It is critical that we define a standard header for reporting this metric to help organizations assess the carbon emissions associated to the consumption of external services, SaaS, or even a Web site, a Google search, a ChatGPT response, etc.

Note: We're talking about Scope-2 emissions only (i.e. associated to the electricity consumed while performing the service), because you only need to take into account the Scope-2 emissions of your suppliers when you estimate your own Scope-3 emissions. See https://www.iso.org/standard/66453.html  and https://ghgprotocol.org/sites/default/files/standards_supporting/FAQ.pdf for more information on Scope 1, 2 and 3.

Any chance this would be looked at by the HTTPbis WG? I believe this could transform the industry in how it handles carbon emissions.

Thank you!

Bertrand Martin
sentrysoftware.com

Received on Tuesday, 11 April 2023 13:22:49 UTC