The IESG has received a request from the Hypertext Transfer Protocol WG (httpbis) to consider the following document: - 'Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Client-Initiated Content-Encoding' <draft-ietf-httpbis-cice-01.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 2015-08-04. 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 In HTTP, content codings allow for payload encodings such as for compression or integrity checks. In particular, the "gzip" content coding is widely used for payload data sent in response messages. Content codings can be used in request messages as well, however discoverability is not on par with response messages. This document extends the HTTP "Accept-Encoding" header field for use in responses, to indicate that content codings are supported in requests. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-cice/ IESG discussion, once it begins, can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-cice/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
