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[art] Revising BCP56: On the use of HTTP as a Substrate

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Tue, 11 July 2017 04:14 UTC

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Subject: [art] Revising BCP56: On the use of HTTP as a Substrate
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A number of folks have recently noted that BCP56 addresses the problems of using HTTP for protocols in the early 2000's, but we've moved on considerably since then. 

Given the number of IETF protocols being build upon HTTP these days, it seems timely to reconsider it. I've been working on a candidate for replacing it for a little while; see:
  https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-bcp56bis
  https://mnot.github.io/I-D/bcp56bis/

I have a small-ish slot in the HTTP WG session on Wednesday to discuss this. 

Cheers,

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