The Link-Template HTTP Header Field
draft-ietf-httpapi-link-template-04

Yes

Zaheduzzaman Sarker

No Objection

Erik Kline
Jim Guichard
John Scudder
Murray Kucherawy
Paul Wouters
Roman Danyliw
Éric Vyncke
(Andrew Alston)
(Robert Wilton)

No Record

Deb Cooley
Francesca Palombini
Gunter Van de Velde
Mahesh Jethanandani
Orie Steele
Warren Kumari

Note: This ballot was opened for revision 03 and is now closed.

Comment (2024-02-15 for -03) Sent 
Feedback from incoming ART AD, Orie Steele:

I'd prefer to see specific security considerations associated with "Display Strings", based on this MUST:

"These Parameter values MUST be Strings, unless they contain non-ASCII characters, in which case they MUST be Display Strings. "

... and the following comment in the normative reference:

"It is NOT RECOMMENDED that they be used in situations where a String (Section 3.3.3) or Token (Section 3.3.4) would be adequate, because Unicode has processing considerations (e.g., normalization) and security considerations (e.g., homograph attacks) that make it more difficult to handle correctly."
Comment (2024-02-15 for -03) Not sent 
I see these were addressed in -03, apologies for not noticing that earlier.
Comment (2024-02-09 for -03) Not sent 
Thank you to Radia Perlman for the SECDIR review.
Comment (2024-02-12 for -03) Not sent 
Nice and clear shepherd write-up for a useful document (even to my non-expert eyes).

Minor regret: the companion documents in other WG are not on the same telechat date.
No Objection (for -03) Not sent 

                            

                        
                    

                
            
                
                    
                    

                        

                            

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Hi Mark,

Thanks for this document.  I have one minor comment:

(1) p 1, sec 1.  Introduction

   This specification defines a HTTP header field [HTTP] for conveying
   templates for links in the headers of a HTTP message.  It is
   complimentary to the Link header field defined in Section 3 of
   [WEB-LINKING], which carries links directly.

As a minor comment, it wasn't entirely clear to me what these HTTP templates are used for and why it is helpful to carry them in the HTTP headers (as opposed to the body).  Hence please consider whether adding a paragraph to the intro, highlighting potential use cases, or perhaps giving an example of what is useful for may be helpful to readers.

Regards,
Rob