Re: To what extent do we care about HTTP status code 308?

On 2012-01-13 23:09, Patrick McManus wrote:
>
>> The compatibility/deployment issues are discussed over here:
>> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-http-status-308-01.html#rfc.section.4>.
>>
>
> I think this fills a hole, is well thought out, and is being done
> cooperatively in the appropriate standards body. Julian has worked very
> hard at filing down the inconsistencies in the http space.
>
>>
>> So the Internet Draft could proceed to LC and publication without any
>> implementation in browsers.
>
> I'd actually frown on that. One of the nice things rapid release and
> silent updates give us is the freedom to innovate without being locked
> into those choices for ever. Experience is good - data trumps documents.
> The IETF has always thought so. Being able to checkpoint at 6 week
> intervals lets us undo a bad idea before it becomes a defacto standard -
> that's much harder when its more than a draft we're talking about.
> ...

The spec is now in IETF Last Call, ending in four weeks from now. If 
there's a problem with the definition, now would be the time to point it 
out.

See <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012JanMar/0502.html>.

Best regards, Julian