Re: [http-state] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-18.txt> (HTTP State Management Mechanism) to Proposed Standard

Apologies for the late reply.

FWIW, I support publication; this is a very well-written spec, and a long overdue revision.

One small suggestion: it may be worthwhile to point out that the presence of a Cookie request header or Set-Cookie response header does not preclude HTTP caches from storing and reusing a response.

Regards,

On 19/11/2010, at 6:30 AM, The IESG wrote:

> 
> The IESG has received a request from the HTTP State Management Mechanism
> WG (httpstate) to consider the following document:
> - 'HTTP State Management Mechanism'
>  <draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-18.txt> as a Proposed Standard
> 
> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
> ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2010-12-02. Exceptionally, comments may be
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> 
> The file can be obtained via
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie/
> 
> IESG discussion can be tracked via
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie/
> 
> 
> No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
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