- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 17:06:11 PDT
- To: Arthur van Hoff <avh@marimba.com>
- CC: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>, Push Workshop <www-push@w3.org>
> Hi Jim, > Can you give me an idea on the likelihood that any > changes can be made to the HTTP/1.1 specification? Jim's out of town for a week, so I'll answer for him: Any changes to the HTTP/1.1 specification require the consensus of the HTTP working group and the HTTP implementation community, and the likelihood of making the change is directly proportional to the likelihood of getting that consensus. In addition, we're somewhat constrained by the fact that we basically cannot make any incompatible changes that are inconsistent with what is already deployed, or mandate any new behavior that was not mandated before. Lots can still happen to HTTP under those ground rules, though. Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
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