On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 1:32 PM Mike Bishop <mbishop@evequefou.be> wrote:
> Since the BCP14 reference was added (in PR 2373
> <https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/pull/2373>) at Francesca’s
> request, I will let the two of you confer and tell me whether the reference
> is needed. I don’t think the difference between OPTIONAL and optional is
> particularly compelling here, so I’m content either way. It would be
> somewhat surprising to publish a Proposed Standard document that doesn’t
> use normative language, but all the actual protocol machinery is in the
> existing document, so I can see how it would work here.
>
Francesa is the sponsoring AD, so it's her call. No need for us to
coordinate unless she wants to discuss it. It was just a suggestion.
> Proposed Standard is the intended status here because RFC 8336 is
> Proposed Standard, and this defines a means to exercise that mechanism in
> HTTP/3.
>
Thanks for that; it's just a detail that I think should be in the writeup,
but is glossed over with increasing frequency.
-MSK