Re: [http-state] http-state charter

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Wed, 05 August 2009 16:28 UTC

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I think it's agreed that we need to document current behaviour. How  
and where that happens, as well as its relationship to existing specs  
is still something that needs to be discussed more widely, I think.

Cheers,


On 04/08/2009, at 7:31 PM, Bil Corry wrote:

> Mark Nottingham wrote on 8/4/2009 8:26 PM:
>> I would encourage people on this list to discuss how to make that
>> happen, and not to try to second-guess the IETF process, what will  
>> and
>> will not be acceptable to the IESG, etc; we'll get there soon enough.
>
> So is it agreed then that this WG will work to produce a RFC that  
> specifies Cookies as-they-exist-today?
>
> Our charter currently reads (in part):
>
> "The working group will create a new RFC that obsoletes RFC 2965 and
> specifies Cookies as they are used in existing implementations and
> deployments."
>
>
> Does that work?
>
>
> - Bil
>
>


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