The IESG has received a request from the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis WG (httpbis) to consider the following document: - 'Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content' <draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-24.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2013-11-04. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. This document defines the semantics of HTTP/1.1 messages, as expressed by request methods, request header fields, response status codes, and response header fields, along with the payload of messages (metadata and body content) and mechanisms for content negotiation. Note that this document is part of a set, which should be reviewed together: * draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging * draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics * draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional * draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range * draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache * draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth * draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations * draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations The following normative references should be noted as "downward references": RFC 1950, "ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3" RFC 1951, "DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3" RFC 1952, "GZIP file format specification version 4.3" Welch, T., "A Technique for High Performance Data Compression" In addition, the obsolete reference to RFC 1305 will be updated to point to RFC 5905. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics/ Once IESG evaluation begins, IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
