Re: New Version Notification for draft-nottingham-http-availability-hints-00.txt

[Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]>]

These are all good ideas. 

I'm glad we're keeping the old ways up -- 0 to bikeshedding names as quickly as possible ;)

Cheers,


> On 14 Mar 2023, at 8:57 am, Glenn Strauss <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> What about replacing "Accept-" in request from client
> with "Vary-" in response from server?  This might indicate
> to the client (or intermediate proxy) how the server might
> "vary" responses for that vector.  A client might choose to
> look at Vary-* only for related items listed in Vary.
> 
> This might extend to Vary-User-Agent, though that does not
> begin with Accept-*.  (If Accept-*, then Vary-* without
> repeating the Accept-, e.g. not Vary-Accept-Encoding).
> 
> BTW, the draft does not highlight that "Accept-" prefix for
> items in the Vary response header is not included in the name
> of the corresponding "Avail-*" response header.
> 
> Cheers, Glenn
> 
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 09:16:13PM +0100, Asbjørn Ulsberg wrote:
>> I too like the spec. I’m also +1 with Mike on the “Avail” prefix. If we want to save characters, can’t “Has” work instead? “Has-Encoding”, and “Has-Language” sounds good to me, at least.
>> 
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>> On 13 Mar 2023, 19:37 +0100, Mike Bishop <[e-mail]>, wrote:
>>> Broadly, I like it.  I think Variants had a lot of potential to improve caching and am disappointed it hasn’t made more progress; this might be an easier way to approach the problem.
>>> 
>>> It seems like you’re moving in a direction where:
>>> 
>>> • These headers are always lists
>>> • Equivalence classes MAY be indicated by including a sublist as a list element, for axes where it’s possible for different values to produce identical responses
>>> • One list element MAY be indicated as default, for axes where a default makes sense and isn’t already implicit
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It’d be nice to be able to define this more generally, but you may be on the right track that many of the Accept-* headers have enough individual quirks that they’ll all have to be separately defined.
>>> 
>>> Minor nits:
>>> 
>>> • I’m unenthused by “Avail” as a prefix here, purely because it’s an actual word that isn’t actually what you mean.  Do we really need to save those four characters?
>>> • 5.3, Avail-Format => Avail-Language
>>> 
>>> 
>>> From: Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]>
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2023 9:49 PM
>>> To: HTTP Working Group <[e-mail]>
>>> Subject: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-nottingham-http-availability-hints-00.txt
>>> 
>>> FYI - this is a draft that I think is suitable for replacing the Variants specification. It conveys roughly the same information, but in a much more simple and intuitive way. Many parts are just sketched out to be filled in later, but it should be possible to get the general idea being proposed.
>>> 
>>> Thoughts? If there's interest, I might ask for five minutes in Yokohama to talk about adoption.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>> 
>>>> From: [e-mail]
>>>> Subject: New Version Notification for draft-nottingham-http-availability-hints-00.txt
>>>> Date: 12 March 2023 at 1:47:09 pm AEDT
>>>> To: "Mark Nottingham" <[e-mail]>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> A new version of I-D, draft-nottingham-http-availability-hints-00.txt
>>>> has been successfully submitted by Mark Nottingham and posted to the
>>>> IETF repository.
>>>> 
>>>> Name:                  draft-nottingham-http-availability-hints
>>>> Revision:              00
>>>> Title:                     HTTP Availability Hints
>>>> Document date:               2023-03-11
>>>> Group:                  Individual Submission
>>>> Pages:                  10
>>>> URL:            https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-nottingham-http-availability-hints-00.txt
>>>> Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-http-availability-hints/
>>>> Html:           https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-nottingham-http-availability-hints-00.html
>>>> Htmlized:       https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-nottingham-http-availability-hints
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Abstract:
>>>>   This specification defines availability hints, a new class of HTTP
>>>>   responses headers that augment the information in the Vary header
>>>>   field.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The IETF Secretariat
>>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/
>>> 

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