- From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
- Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:34:38 -0800
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- Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental@ietf.org, httpbis-chairs@ietf.org, ietf-http-wg@w3.org, mbishop@evequefou.be, mnot@mnot.net, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Incremental Forwarding of HTTP Messages' (draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental-04.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the HTTP Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Gorry Fairhurst and Mike Bishop. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental/ Technical Summary This document specifies the "Incremental" HTTP header field, which instructs HTTP intermediaries to forward the HTTP message incrementally. Working Group Summary No controversy. Worth noting that this is a dependency of draft-ietf-ohai-chunked-ohttp. Document Quality Document quality is good; multiple Last Call directorate reviews were received and addressed. While there are few live implementations of this header, it is advisory toward proxies which do already have this behavior; it simply provides a feedback channel to inform proxies which of their existing handling modes the client or server would prefer. Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Mark Nottingham. The Responsible Area Director is Mike Bishop. IANA Note Defines new HTTP message field.
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