Re: holding connections open: a modest proposal

Gary Adams - Sun Microsystems Labs BOS (Gary.Adams@east.sun.com)
Thu, 15 Sep 1994 10:18:07 +0500


One of the highlights from WWW'94 was the roadmap for HTML
which nailed down some common terminology for specific browser
capabilities:

HTML 1.0 Original RFC
HTML 2.0 Current practice as of 5/94 to
be specified and endorsed by IETF
standard by end of 1994.(?)
HTML 3.0 Place holder for HTML+ features and
various proposed new elements.

I wonder if a similar roadmap exists for changes in the
HTTP protocol :

HTTP 0.9 in the beginning
HTTP 1.0 Original RFC (?)

HTTP 1.1 Proxy/cache extensions If-modified-since,
Pragma no-cache (Pragma keep-connection?)

HTTP 1.2 MGET and multipart MIME responses

HTTP 2.0 Sessions?

It would be good to have a list of proposed changes in the protocol and
a rough idea of the timeframe and process for introducing these changes
into the mainstream. I haven't visted the W3O pages recently, but that
is probably the right place for tracking this type of information.

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