Re: [Ietf-message-headers] provisional registration Accept-Datetime header

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Thu, 20 May 2010 14:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ietf-message-headers] provisional registration Accept-Datetime header
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* Herbert Van de Sompel wrote:
>PROVISIONAL MESSAGE HEADER FIELD SUBMISSION TEMPLATE:
>
>    Header field name: Accept-Datetime
>
>    Applicable protocol: http
>
>    Status: provisional
>
>    Author/Change controller: Herbert Van de Sompel,  
>hvdsomp@gmail.com, Los Alamos National Laboratory, http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/ 
>, Memento Development Group at memento-dev@googlegroups.com
>
>    Specification document(s): http://www.mementoweb.org/guide/http/

Per RFC 3864 section 4.2.2 the specification should indicate an email
address "for sending technical comments and discussion of the proposed
message header". Could that be added? I also note that it would be use-
ful if the specification had some definitional sentence ala "The Accept-
Datetime header is a HTTP request-header that ...".
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