Working Group Last Call on the HTTPbis document set

[Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]>]

Since our last Working Group Last Calls on the RFC2616bis documents, there have been a number of substantial changes, brought about both by discussion and the editors' initiative (as discussed in Orlando). 

As such, we're having another (hopefully final) Working Group Last Call on the entire document set:

* Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-22
  Diffs from the previous WGLC: http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-22.txt

* Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-22
  Diffs from the previous WGLC: http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-22.txt

* Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-22
  Diffs from the previous WGLC: http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-22.txt

* Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-22
  Diffs from the previous WGLC: http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-22.txt

* Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-22
  Diffs from the previous WGLC: http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-22.txt

* Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-22
  Diffs from the previous WGLC: http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-22.txt

* Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-11
  Diffs from the previous WGLC: http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-11.txt

* Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Authentication Scheme Registrations
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-06
  Diffs from the previous WGLC: http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-06.txt

This WGLC will close on April 30, 2013.


Providing Feedback
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I'd especially encourage those who review the documents without finding significant issues to say so on the list; one of the challenges we have is to show that the documents have seen adequate review, and this becomes difficult when people are quiet.

Also, please bring these documents to the attention of those HTTP implementers who may not have been following this process closely; they are likely to be the ones that go forward to IETF Last Call, then replacing RFC2616.

Thanks for your efforts,

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Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/