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Re: An IETF working group for HTTP?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy T. Fielding)
Mon Sep 19 10:23:18 1994

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 15:26:46 +0200
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Dave Raggett writes:

> I believe that the time has now come to develop HTTP as an IETF backed
> protocol with the standard defined as a sequence of RFCs. The first step
> is to draw up a charter for this activity. We can then approach the IETF
> to set up an HTTP working group. Are there any volunteers to help with
> writing a draft charter?

I agree that this should be done, though I would prefer not to wait until
December to start work on a definitive HTTP/1.0 spec.  I volunteer to help
write the charter.

> We need to get to grips with:

[excellent list of future issues deleted]

Let me just add that it is important that we also (first or in parallel)
document HTTP/1.0 as it exists in current practice.


.....Roy Fielding   ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine  USA
                                     <fielding@ics.uci.edu>
                     <URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/dir/grad/Software/fielding>

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