Re: [http-state] 'HTTP State Management Mechanism' to Proposed Standard

[=JeffH <[e-mail]>]

This is great news!

 > Personnel
 >
 >    The Document Shepherd is Jeff Hodges.  The Responsible Area
 >    Director is Peter Saint-Andre.

But the person who did the vast majority of the work, and who's idea it was to 
tackle this in the first place, is _Adam Barth_, who deserves an outsized chunk 
of the credit. Thanks for hanging in there and making this happen Adam. 
Additionally, Peter Saint-Andre's expert navigation of the IETF document and 
IESG processes was an instrumental contribution. Thanks Peter.

I also thank the broad array of participants in the working group, both online 
and in person at our sessions at IETF meetings -- your contributions were 
critical to crafting a high-quality spec and navigating the approval process. 
THANKS.

This spec is a milestone in that HTTP "cookie" syntax and behavior has been 
effectively a matter of undocumented folklore all these years. Getting this 
finally explicitly documented will be a key underlying piece of moving "the 
Web", and the wider Internet its built upon, on towards its next stage(s).

thanks again,

=JeffH
IETF HTTP State WG Chair
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