IETF 85 - HTTPbis -21 Changes Overview

Julian Reschke, greenbytes

History

• -17: published November 2011 (before IETF 82, WG did not meet)
• -18: published January 2012
• -19: published March 2012 (before IETF 83)
• -20: published July 2012 (before IETF 84)
• -21: published October 2012 (before IETF 85)

First Working Group Last Call for Parts 4, 5, 6, and 7 ended April 12, 2012

First Working Group Last Call for Parts 1 & 2 ended November 25, 2012

Second Working Group Last Call for Parts 4, 5, 6, and 7 ended November 25, 2012

Changes - General

Lots of rewrites/rearrangements in Parts 1 & 2, plus...:

• Capturing more information in the method registry (Ticket 364)
• "Most Conservative" (Ticket 375)
• what is the idempotency of LINK and UNLINK? (Ticket 377)
• Semantics of HTTPS (Ticket 383)
• half-close because of pipelining (Ticket 176)
• Misc editorial feedback for consideration in p1 (Ticket 339)
• rename b64token for clarity (Ticket 376)
• is "q=" case-sensitive? (Ticket 378)