Protocol Action: 'Incremental Forwarding of HTTP Messages' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental-04.txt)

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Mon, 02 March 2026 19:34 UTC

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Incremental Forwarding of HTTP Messages' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental-04.txt)
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The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Incremental Forwarding of HTTP Messages'
  (draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental-04.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the HTTP Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Gorry Fairhurst and Mike Bishop.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental/




Technical Summary

   This document specifies the "Incremental" HTTP header field, which
   instructs HTTP intermediaries to forward the HTTP message
   incrementally.

Working Group Summary

   No controversy. Worth noting that this is a dependency of
   draft-ietf-ohai-chunked-ohttp.

Document Quality

   Document quality is good; multiple Last Call directorate reviews were
   received and addressed.

   While there are few live implementations of this header, it is advisory
   toward proxies which do already have this behavior; it simply provides
   a feedback channel to inform proxies which of their existing handling
   modes the client or server would prefer.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Mark Nottingham. The
   Responsible Area Director is Mike Bishop.

IANA Note

  Defines new HTTP message field.

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