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Re: [websec] #12: Remove dependencies on HTTPbis and depend on RFC2616 only

=JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com> Tue, 26 July 2011 14:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [websec] #12: Remove dependencies on HTTPbis and depend on RFC2616 only
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StPete asked...
 > On 7/24/11 9:22 PM, websec issue tracker wrote:
 >> #12: Remove dependencies on HTTPbis and depend on RFC2616 only
 >>
 >>  -strict-transport-sec has various dependencies (e.g. STS header field
 >>  ABNF) on HTTPbis.
 >>
 >>  HTTPbis may not complete in a timeframe workable for having -strict-
 >>  transport-sec go to RFC, so we should remove dependencies on HTTPbis, and
 >>  depend on RFC2616 only.
 >
 > Jeff, just curious: what do you perceive as the likely timeframe for
 > publication of both HSTS and HTTPbis?

As I related in the websec wg session yesterday, httpbis is trying to get into 
WG Last Call by the end of 2011, which is a slip from what they were targeting 
as of last fall...

So I decided we shouldn't wait for them (unfortunately). And no one pushed back 
on that in the session yesterday.

=JeffH

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