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Re: [http-state] http-state charter

Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Tue, 04 August 2009 00:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-state] http-state charter
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On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Dan Winship wrote:
>
> I am not an RFC expert (IANAIANA?) and am just basing this on what I've 
> absorbed through IETF mailing list osmosis, but there are various things 
> in the real-world-cookie spec that I imagine would result in it being 
> rejected as a standards-track RFC.

I think it's more important that we end up with an accurate spec than one 
that the IETF accepts.

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