Re: HTTP/1.1: They're done.

Its official now ... RFC616 is obsolete!

On 7/06/2014 2:20 p.m., Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Oh! And one more thank you, to Mark Baker for serving as Shepherd for the Caching doc.
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> Cheers,
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> On 6 Jun 2014, at 10:09 pm, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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>> Just a quick note -
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>> The revision of HTTP/1.1’s specification, obsoleting RFC2616, is complete.
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>> See:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230 - Message Syntax and Routing
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231 - Semantics and Content
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7232 - Conditional Requests
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7233 - Range Requests
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234 - Caching
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7235 - Authentication
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>> Along with the related documents:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7236 - Authentication Scheme Registrations
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7237 - Method Registrations
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>> Thanks to everyone who has commented upon, reviewed and otherwise contributed to them over this nearly seven-year(!) effort.
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>> Special thanks to our Area Directors over the years: Lisa Dusseault, Alexey Melnikov, Peter Saint-Andre and Barry Leiba, along with Yves Lafon, who helped edit Range Requests.
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>> Finally, please warmly thank both Roy Fielding and Julian Reschke the next time you see them (I believe beer would be appreciated); the amount of effort that they put into these documents is far, far more than they originally signed up for, and they’ve done an excellent job.
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>> Now, onwards to HTTP/2...
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>> P.S. This document set’s completion also has enabled the publication of these related non-WG documents:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7238 - The Hypertext Transfer Protocol Status Code 308 (Permanent Redirect)
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7239 - Forwarded HTTP Extension
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7240 - Prefer Header for HTTP
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Received on Sat Jun 07 2014 - 05:42:41 MDT