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Re: Straw-man charter for http-bis

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Fri, 01 June 2007 18:31 UTC

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Keith Moore wrote:
> People contemplating a rewrite of HTTP should really look hard that the
> experience from the DRUMS working group that updated RFC 822 and SMTP. 
> It took a very long time, and while the results are clearer in many ways
> than the original specifications, IMHO they are not an improvement in
> every respect.  

I think this is a very valid point.  Many of us still have the scars.

Eliot

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