[dispatch] Format underlying security.txt

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 18 June 2021 11:07 UTC

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https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-foudil-securitytxt

defines a format and semantics for /security.txt on web servers (I know, I’m simplifying here).

There are now knockoffs like draft-ring-analyticstxt that seem to define a format that is almost, but not entirely, unlike security.txt.

Do we need a spec that defines an RFC822-like text format for key-value pairs like this (because, clearly, we don’t have enough text formats to choose from)?  
I would consider this preferable to setting up a maze of little knock-off formats all different.

Grüße, Carsten