Re: [websec] [Ietf-message-headers] HTTP 'Origin' permanent and provisional

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 2013-02-13 21:43, Yoav Nir wrote:
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> On Feb 13, 2013, at 10:24 PM, Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>
>   wrote:
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>> Well.
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>> You make it sound as if it's ok to run two different registries with partly overlapping values. It's not. It's a bug in the way IANA handles this. This is what needs to be fixed.
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>> Best regards, Julian
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> I don't want to turn this into a process debate, but having a provisional registry like this allows you to create interoperable implementations while the document is still at draft. I often see a push to get a document published because we need the IANA assignments for products.

Yes.

> Of course they could still do this with a single registry where provisional entries are somehow marked (with an asterisk?). That way we wouldn't get to a situation where we have double entries.

The key thing being that both registries share the same namespace, so, 
by definition, an entry can not appear in both. If it does, there's a 
process/software problem.

Of course the trivial way to do this right is to implement a *single* 
registry, and to just store a flag for each entry.

Best regards, Julian