In Section 2 of draft-hammer-hostmeta-13, the spec directs a client to make HTTP and HTTPS connections to ports 80 and 443, respectively. The spec ought not refer to specific port numbers in normative text, but rather the well-known HTTP and HTTPS ports -- if at all. Note that RFC 5785 (Well-Known URIs) does not refer to port numbers. Additionally, the requirements to first check via HTTPS, then via HTTP, and the requirements for identical contents, are not requirements imposed by RFC 5785 -- though 5785 allows that "a registration ... MAY also contain additional information, ... or protocol-specific details". A reference to that text might be useful to remind an implementer that other well-known URIs may have different protocol-specific requirements. Cheers, Aaron On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > FYI. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Last Call: draft-hammer-hostmeta (Web Host Metadata) to > Proposed Standard > Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:30:41 -0700 (PDT) > From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: ietf@xxxxxxxx > To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@xxxxxxxx> > > The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider > the following document: > > - 'Web Host Metadata ' > <draft-hammer-hostmeta-13.txt> as a 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@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2010-07-23. Exceptionally, > comments may be sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please > retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. > > The file can be obtained via > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hammer-hostmeta-13.txt > > > IESG discussion can be tracked via > https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=19329&rfc_flag=0 > > _______________________________________________ > IETF-Announce mailing list > IETF-Announce@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce > > > _______________________________________________ > apps-discuss mailing list > apps-discuss@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/apps-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf