- From: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:30:30 -0500
- To: "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>
As some of you know there is an HTTPbis working group [1] busy making
surgical changes to RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) [2] to promote
"interoperability" and internal consistency. I hope the below changes
are uncontroversial, but thought I'd submit them to TAG & friends,
especially Henry, for a once-over before discussion moves to the WG.
I will send them as a personal request, after review here, unless
advised otherwise.
-Jonathan
[1] http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/httpbis-charter.html
[2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
(Tracker, this is ISSUE-50)
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3.2.2 http URL:
(1) To avoid the possible implication that the semantics of the http:
scheme is
tied to the HTTP protocol, change "is used" to "may be used".
(2) To avoid the possible implication that the http: scheme is
exclusively used
with the HTTP protocol, or that the RFC is the last word with regard to
what's identified, add the qualifier "HTTP protocol" to "semantics".
(3) Change "URL" to "URI".
*** RFC 2616 HAS: ***
3.2.2 http URL
The "http" scheme is used to locate network resources via the HTTP
protocol. This section defines the scheme-specific syntax and
semantics for http URLs.
*** PROPOSED REPLACEMENT: ***
3.2.2 http URI
The "http" scheme may be used to locate network resources via the
HTTP
protocol. This section defines the scheme-specific syntax and
HTTP protocol semantics for http URIs.
Received on Monday, 9 February 2009 16:31:14 UTC