[Gen-art] Gen-ART Telechat Review of draft-bryan-metalinkhttp-21

[Ben Campbell <[e-mail]>]

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Document: draft-bryan-metalinkhttp-21
Reviewer: Ben Campbell
Review Date:  2011-03-01
IETF LC End Date:
IESG Telechat date: 2011-03-03

Summary: This draft is essentially ready for publication as a proposed standard. I have a couple of remaining comments that may be worth considering, but probably should not block the draft's progress.

Major issues:

None.

Minor issues:

-- I note that the draft still suggests that servers SHOULD share an eTag generation policy, but does not offer a baseline policy that servers either SHOULD or MUST implement. I still have a mild concern that implementations might have non-intersecting sets of policy options. On the other hand, I realize that coming up with (i.e. agreeing to) a baseline policy is not a trivial effort in itself, so I don't think this should block publication. I mention it merely for the sake of completeness.

Nits/editorial comments:

-- section 2, last paragraph "Metalink clients use the mirrors provided by a Metalink server in Link header fields [ RFC5988 ] but it is restricted to the initial Metalink server they contacted. "

s /"... it is restricted..." / "... this is restricted ..."

Also, is there a risk the initial server could cause a loop by pointing to _itself_?