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

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Tue, 26 July 2011 14:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [websec] #12: Remove dependencies on HTTPbis and depend on RFC2616 only
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On 7/26/11 10:16 AM, =JeffH wrote:
> 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.

Yep, just checking.

Peter

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