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

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Wed, 13 February 2013 20:12 UTC

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Cc: ietf-message-headers@ietf.org, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, websec@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [websec] [Ietf-message-headers] HTTP 'Origin' permanent and provisional
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On 2013-02-13 20:44, SM wrote:
> Hi Bjoern,
>
> [Cc to Websec as it is their document]
>
> At 09:37 13-02-2013, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>>   http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/prov-headers.html and
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/perm-headers.html list
>> the "Origin" header for HTTP, one per RFC 6454 and one from an earlier
>> W3C registration. Is that as it should be?
>
> No.  IANA did what it was requested to do.  Anyway, in my opinion, it
> would have to be fixed (process stuff).
> ...

Yes and no.

The core task is running the registries, and those really should be set 
up such that things like that simply can not happen. Seems like a 
software problem to me -- apparently there are two registries where 
there should be only one.

Best regards, Julian

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