Re: Straw-man charter for http-bis

Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org> Wed, 30 May 2007 14:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: Straw-man charter for http-bis
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Serious question, not a gratuitous opening of a big can-o-worms: 
would the WG also consider extensions to HTTP that would go into 
different documents? That is, is the WG only for the revision of the 
base spec, or also open to ( animated && lengthy && contentious ) 
discussion of other documents as well?