[CHIPs] Call for techniques submission. Round one : Implementors

Greetings,

The "Common HTTP Implementation Problems" (CHIPs) Note [1] is now 
one-month old, and given the comments we received on it (mostly 
editorial), we are likely to publish a new version in a few months, so 
thanks a lot to people who submitted comments, through this channel or 
others.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/chips/

I would like to start encouraging another kind of submission, 
"techniques". You may have noticed that the CHIPs "Techniques" page at 
[2] is currently just a placeholder. We would now like, with your help, 
to make this page live. In order to do this, we are going to make 
several call for submissions. This is the first one, aimed at 
implementors (related to checkpoints marked [SS] or [SI] in the 
document). Others (for users of these servers, Frameworks, languages) 
will follow.

[2] http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/12/chips-techniques

* Call for Submissions. Round One : Implementors *

  Seen with implementors' eye, the Guidelines developed in "Common HTTP 
Implementation Problems" are, basically, of two kinds what HTTP 
Implementations (Servers, Proxies, but also Server-Side Frameworks or 
Languages, etc.) should *do*, and what they should *allow* their users 
to do.

  A technique Submission would thus go through all applicable 
checkpoints, and would ideally answer these questions:

- If the checkpoint is about what the product should do, does your 
product actually do it?
	- if "yes", can you describe quickly how?
	- if "no", can you explain why? Is it a choice?
- If the checkpoint is about what the product should allow, does your 
product actually do so?
	- if "yes", can you give (an) example(s) of how to do it, pointers to 
some documentation, code samples?
	- if "no", can you explain why? Is it a choice?

* Modus Operandum *

You may publish your submission by either:
- Publishing it somewhere on the Web, and announce it to the publicly 
archived list www-qa@w3.org
- Send the submission directly to the publicly archived list 
www-qa@w3.org
A list of submissions will be maintained at [2].
[2] http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/12/chips-techniques

Feel free to contact me directly (<mailto:ot@w3.org>) to sort out any 
detail or answer questions about this submission process.

Thank you. olivier.
-- 
Olivier Thereaux - W3C - QA : http://www.w3.org/QA/
http://www.w3.org/People/olivier | http://yoda.zoy.org

Received on Friday, 28 February 2003 07:11:14 UTC