Re: [http-state] http-state charter

[Daniel Stenberg <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Adam Barth wrote:

> The "Informational" status does not appear appropriate for this document 
> because the Internet community seems to have reached consensus about the 
> behavior of the Cookie and Set-Cookie header as evidenced by billions of 
> such headers traveling over the Internet between hundreds of implementations 
> every day.

As on author of one of those hundreds, I for sure would've appreciated the 
existance of such a document when I started my work.

If clarifying the existing practise isn't what you want to see, what exactly 
do you want?

Both RFC2109 and 2965 failed because they tried to engineer a new cookie 
concept that no author was interested in. I don't see how craftning yet 
another new thing has any better chance this time, so the "only" remaining 
work is instead documenting how things actually work today.

Or what am I missing?

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