Re: p1: HTTP and TCP name delegation

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Mon, 22 April 2013 04:11 UTC

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  http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/447


On 20/04/2013, at 2:07 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> p1 2.7.1 says:
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>> Although HTTP is independent of the transport protocol, the "http" scheme is specific to TCP-based services because the name delegation process depends on TCP for establishing authority. An HTTP service based on some other underlying connection protocol would presumably be identified using a different URI scheme, just as the "https" scheme (below) is used for resources that require an end-to-end secured connection. Other protocols might also be used to provide access to "http" identified resources — it is only the authoritative interface used for mapping the namespace that is specific to TCP.
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> I made a previous editorial comment that this should be clarified as follows:
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> "...because the name delegation process depends on the TCP port for establishing authority."   (note "port")
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> However, that wasn't integrated. Is that incorrect, or was there another reason?
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> Also, no such statement is made in the definition of the HTTPS URI scheme (2.7.2); it should be.
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