- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 08:55:53 +1000
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Hi everyone, There are a number of HTTP-related documents in the RFC Series that are Experimental.[1] Experiments should end, and it would be good to reflect their status in the series if the overhead of doing so isn't too high. Luckily, the IESG has a relatively lightweight procedure for moving a document to Historic.[2] A quick search[3] gives us a list to work with; I've grouped them into how I think they should be handled below. I think the following Experimental RFCs can (and should) be changed to Historic status (with any registered protocol elements being deprecated or obsoleted, as per the registry's conventions): - RFC2169: A Trivial Convention for using HTTP in URN Resolution - RFC2296: HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm -- RVSA/1.0 - RFC2310: The Safe Response Header Field - RFC2660: The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol - RFC2774: An HTTP Extension Framework - RFC8164: Opportunistic Security for HTTP/2 I'm not sure about the following documents, so I think the right thing to do is to leave them alone for now (unless someone else wants to argue to move them to Historic): - RFC2295: Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP - RFC7486: HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication (HOBA) - RFC7804: Salted Challenge Response HTTP Authentication Mechanism - RFC8053: HTTP Authentication Extensions for Interactive Clients - RFC8120: Mutual Authentication Protocol for HTTP - RFC8121: Mutual Authentication Protocol for HTTP: Cryptographic Algorithms Based on the Key Agreement Mechanism 3 (KAM3) Finally, I think the following experiments are still running, and so there should be no change in their status: - RFC8297: An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints - RFC8673: HTTP Random Access and Live Content - RFC8942: HTTP Client Hints What do folks think? If we can get quick agreement on these, we can ask our AD to start the process on these. Cheers, 1. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2026.html#section-4.2.1 2. https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/statements/designating-rfcs-historic-2014-07-20/ 3. https://rfc.fyi/?search=http&level=experimental -- Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/
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