Hi David, Thanks very much for the review. I think it's probably best to defer discussion of the issue below until the IESG does its comments/DISCUSSes, as they ultimately own policy in this area (AIUI). Cheers, > On 14 Jul 2021, at 11:23 am, David Black via Datatracker <noreply@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I did notice one non-Transport ISSUE of potential concern - Section 4.3 on > Specifying Client Behavior leads off with these two paragraphs: > > An application's expectations for client behaviour ought to be > closely aligned with those of Web browsers, to avoid interoperability > issues when they are used. > > One way to do this is to define it in terms of [FETCH], since that is > the abstraction that browsers use for HTTP. > > Based on this text, I was surprised to see that not only is [FETCH] an > informative reference, but that it is also a reference to a non-archival source > (WHATWG, "Fetch - Living Standard"). Given the prominent use of that > citation, I'd think that the reference ought to be a normative reference to an > archival document, perhaps complemented with advice on where to find > updated versions of that document. > -- Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/ -- last-call mailing list last-call@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/last-call
