[httpapi] Introduction and introducing proposal for standardisation of profile negotiation

["Lars G. Svensson" <[e-mail]>]

All,

My name is Lars Svensson and while not entirely new to IETF
standardisation (I was active in URNbis) this is my first stab at http
standardisation.

For some time now, Ruben Verborgh, Herbert Van de Sompel and I together
with folks in W3C have been working on a proposal for http content
negotiation using profiles. This is done by adding a new http header
"Accept-Profile" and re-using the "Link"-header (RFC 8288). The proposal
was uploaded as an I-D earlier today [1].

The work has been done in co-operation with the W3C Data Exchange WG [2]
and there is a corresponding document on rec track there [3]. In terms
of implementation work we know of some implementations and would be
happy to share that information, too, if it is of interest.

We ask the WG to consider adopting this draft as part of its work.

[1]
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-svensson-profiled-representations-00.txt
[2] https://www.w3.org/2017/dxwg/
[3] https://www.w3.org/TR/dx-prof-conneg/

Thanks in advance,

Lars for the authors