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

On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, =JeffH wrote:

> This is great news!

this makes me GLAD

>> 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
> PayPal Information Risk Management
>
>
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