Re: [Gen-art] [Last-Call] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-httpbis-cache-16

Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org> Fri, 11 June 2021 12:08 UTC

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Mohit, thank you for your review. I have entered a No Objection ballot for this document.

Lars


> On 2021-5-30, at 17:14, Mohit Sethi via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> Reviewer: Mohit Sethi
> Review result: Ready with Nits
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> Document: draft-ietf-httpbis-cache-16
> Reviewer: Mohit Sethi
> Review Date: 2021-05-30
> IETF LC End Date: 2021-06-10
> IESG Telechat date: 2021-06-17
> 
> Summary: This draft specification defines HTTP caches and header fields for
> controlling the cache behavior.
> 
> Major issues:
> 
> Minor issues:
> - In the HTML version of the draft, the reference to [Semantics] does not work
> properly. I looked at the xml source which looks fine. I suspect it is
> something to do with the tooling.
> 
> - It is not clear to me which draft is creating the "Hypertext Transfer
> Protocol (HTTP) Field Name Registry". It seems both this draft and
> draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics are creating it? Perhaps you could remove the text
> in this draft saying "introduce the new" and just ask IANA to update the
> registry with fields in Table 1 of this draft.
> 
> Nits/editorial comments:
> 
> - Section 1: When does a client or server act as "tunnel"? I don't know if it
> is absolutely necessary to explain the term. You can decide.
> 
> - Section 1: HTTP caching's goal is significantly improving performance -> HTTP
> caching's goal is to significantly improve performance?
> 
> - Section 1.3: Maybe it is obvious to many readers, but I was not sure what is
> meant by a "canned string"?
> 
> - Section 3 vs Section 4: "A cache MUST NOT store a response to a request
> unless:" does not have a comma before unless while "When presented with a
> request, a cache MUST NOT reuse a stored response, unless:" has a comma before
> unless?
> 
> - Some of the bullets in section 3 and 4 were hard to parse. Take for example:
> "When presented with a request, a cache MUST NOT reuse a stored response,
> unless: the stored response does not contain the no-cache cache directive
> (Section 5.2.2.4), unless it is successfully validated (Section 4.3), and". I
> am not sure how to simplify the text on all these requirements.
> 
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