Re: Review of changes to the HTTP spec

On 2012-01-20 08:39, Brian Smith wrote:
> HTTPbis seems to be in its final stages. Although it is supposed to be a somewhat minor revision, quite significant changes have been made to the spec. We should review the changes and make sure we provide our feedback before it is too late. In particular, if there is some change that we think we will not implement because we think the change is bad for whatever reason, we should push back on the change. That is probably the only useful feedback we could have this late in the game.
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> Similarly, other HTTP working group work is at or nearing last call status, and we should review it.
>
> Examples:
> http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/#wg-httpbis

These are the seven specs that will replace RFC 2616 and parts of RFC 
2617 (auth framework). We are trying to get them to Working Group Last 
Call before the IETF meeting in Paris (late March). After WG LC, 
there'll be likely one more revision, and then IETF Last Call.

Don't be scared by the amount of text; there's quite a bit of change 
logs, repeated ABNF etc. Also, the modularization should help consuming 
this piece by piece.

> http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/#draft-reschke-http-status-308

This is not a product of the HTTP WG; I plan to request publication in 
~10 days. IETF LC should start sometime in February.

Impact on FF: <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714302>

> http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/#draft-nottingham-http-new-status

This is not a product of the HTTP WG; it has just *finished* IETF Last 
Call. You can watch the state at 
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-http-new-status/>.

I don't believe this spec will affect Firefox.

> This seems like it would be a significant amount of work. And, it probably can't be delayed too much. It might not be a good idea to delay the start of this review until after the Necko team workweek.
>
> - Brian
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