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Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations
draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-15

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2014-05-29
15 (System) RFC Editor state changed to AUTH48-DONE from AUTH48
2014-05-20
15 (System) RFC Editor state changed to AUTH48 from RFC-EDITOR
2014-04-16
15 (System) RFC Editor state changed to RFC-EDITOR from REF
2014-04-15
15 (System) RFC Editor state changed to REF from EDIT
2014-02-18
15 (System) IANA Action state changed to RFC-Ed-Ack from Waiting on RFC Editor
2014-02-17
15 (System) IANA Action state changed to Waiting on RFC Editor from Waiting on Authors
2014-02-17
15 (System) IANA Action state changed to Waiting on Authors from In Progress
2014-02-17
15 (System) IANA Action state changed to In Progress from Waiting on Authors
2014-02-17
15 (System) IANA Action state changed to In Progress from Waiting on Authors
2014-02-17
15 (System) IANA Action state changed to Waiting on Authors from In Progress
2014-02-14
15 (System) IANA Action state changed to In Progress
2014-02-12
15 Amy Vezza IESG state changed to RFC Ed Queue from Approved-announcement sent
2014-02-12
15 (System) RFC Editor state changed to EDIT
2014-02-12
15 (System) Announcement was received by RFC Editor
2014-02-12
15 Amy Vezza IESG state changed to Approved-announcement sent from Approved-announcement to be sent
2014-02-12
15 Amy Vezza IESG has approved the document
2014-02-12
15 Amy Vezza Closed "Approve" ballot
2014-02-12
15 Amy Vezza Ballot approval text was generated
2014-02-12
15 Barry Leiba IESG state changed to Approved-announcement to be sent from Approved-announcement to be sent::Point Raised - writeup needed
2014-02-06
15 Julian Reschke IANA Review state changed to Version Changed - Review Needed from IANA OK - Actions Needed
2014-02-06
15 Julian Reschke New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-15.txt
2013-12-30
14 Gunter Van de Velde Closed request for Telechat review by OPSDIR with state 'No Response'
2013-12-19
14 Cindy Morgan State changed to Approved-announcement to be sent::Point Raised - writeup needed from IESG Evaluation
2013-12-19
14 Stephen Farrell [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Stephen Farrell
2013-12-19
14 Amanda Baber IANA Review state changed to IANA OK - Actions Needed from Version Changed - Review Needed
2013-12-18
14 Joel Jaeggli [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Joel Jaeggli
2013-12-18
14 Pete Resnick [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded for Pete Resnick
2013-12-18
14 Sean Turner [Ballot Position Update] Position for Sean Turner has been changed to Yes from No Objection
2013-12-18
14 Sean Turner [Ballot comment]
I might have said the following in addition to no security considerations:

Security considerations for each method are described in the referenced RFC.
2013-12-18
14 Sean Turner [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Sean Turner
2013-12-18
14 Brian Haberman [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Brian Haberman
2013-12-18
14 Richard Barnes [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded for Richard Barnes
2013-12-18
14 Stewart Bryant [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Stewart Bryant
2013-12-18
14 Benoît Claise [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Benoit Claise
2013-12-17
14 Spencer Dawkins [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Spencer Dawkins
2013-12-17
14 Jari Arkko [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Jari Arkko
2013-12-17
14 Martin Stiemerling [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Martin Stiemerling
2013-12-12
14 Jean Mahoney Request for Telechat review by GENART is assigned to Kathleen Moriarty
2013-12-12
14 Jean Mahoney Request for Telechat review by GENART is assigned to Kathleen Moriarty
2013-12-04
14 Adrian Farrel [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded for Adrian Farrel
2013-11-17
14 Julian Reschke IANA Review state changed to Version Changed - Review Needed from IANA - Not OK
2013-11-17
14 Julian Reschke New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-14.txt
2013-11-11
13 Gunter Van de Velde Request for Telechat review by OPSDIR is assigned to Michael Sneed
2013-11-11
13 Gunter Van de Velde Request for Telechat review by OPSDIR is assigned to Michael Sneed
2013-11-05
13 Tero Kivinen Request for Last Call review by SECDIR Completed: Ready. Reviewer: Alexey Melnikov.
2013-11-05
13 Barry Leiba Ballot has been issued
2013-11-05
13 Barry Leiba [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded for Barry Leiba
2013-11-05
13 Barry Leiba Created "Approve" ballot
2013-11-05
13 Barry Leiba Placed on agenda for telechat - 2013-12-19
2013-11-05
13 Barry Leiba State changed to IESG Evaluation from Waiting for AD Go-Ahead
2013-11-05
13 Barry Leiba Changed consensus to Yes from Unknown
2013-11-04
13 (System) State changed to Waiting for AD Go-Ahead from In Last Call (ends 2013-11-04)
2013-10-30
13 (System) IANA Review state changed to IANA - Not OK from IANA - Review Needed
2013-10-30
13 Pearl Liang
IESG/Authors/WG Chairs:

IANA has reviewed draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-13.  Authors should review the comments and/or questions below.  Please report any inaccuracies and respond to any questions as soon …
IESG/Authors/WG Chairs:

IANA has reviewed draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-13.  Authors should review the comments and/or questions below.  Please report any inaccuracies and respond to any questions as soon as possible.

We received the following comments/questions from the IANA's reviewer:

IANA has a question about one of the IANA actions requested in this document.

IANA also notes that one of the actions in the IANA Considerations section is dependent upon the approval of another draft being considered by the IESG: draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging.

IANA understands that, upon approval of this document, there is one action which IANA must complete.

First, a new registry, called the HTTP Method Registry, will be created via the approval of the document draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics.  This new registry has eight initial registrations as a result of the potential approval of draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics.  The new registry is proposed to be located at:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-methods

The registration rule for this name space is defined by draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics as IETF Review as defined in RFC 5226.  Each registration is made up of a method name, Safe?, Idempotent? and a reference.

This document appears to add new registrations to the new registry created by draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics.

IANA Question -> Appendix A of this draft is titled "Initial Registry Contents."  Are the contents of Appendix A intended to be be added to the initial registrations provided by draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics or are they a replacement of those initial registrations?  IANA believes that the intent is to add these new registrations because of the text in Section 1 of the draft.

The current document requests that the following methods be added to the HTTP Method Registry, created via the approval of the document draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics:

There are initial registrations in this new registry as follows:

+-------------------+------+------------+---------------------------+
| Method Name      | Safe | Idempotent | Reference                |
+-------------------+------+------------+---------------------------+
| ACL              | no  | yes        | [RFC3744], Section 8.1    |
| BASELINE-CONTROL  | no  | yes        | [RFC3253], Section 12.6  |
| BIND              | no  | yes        | [RFC5842], Section 4      |
| CHECKIN          | no  | yes        | [RFC3253], Section 4.4    |
|                  |      |            | and [RFC3253], Section    |
|                  |      |            | 9.4                      |
| CHECKOUT          | no  | yes        | [RFC3253], Section 4.3    |
|                  |      |            | and [RFC3253], Section    |
|                  |      |            | 8.8                      |
| COPY              | no  | yes        | [RFC4918], Section 9.8    |
| LABEL            | no  | yes        | [RFC3253], Section 8.2    |
| LINK              | no  | yes        | [RFC2068], Section        |
|                  |      |            | 19.6.1.2                  |
| LOCK              | no  | no        | [RFC4918], Section 9.10  |
| MERGE            | no  | yes        | [RFC3253], Section 11.2  |
| MKACTIVITY        | no  | yes        | [RFC3253], Section 13.5  |
| MKCALENDAR        | no  | yes        | [RFC4791], Section 5.3.1  |
| MKCOL            | no  | yes        | [RFC4918], Section 9.3    |
| MKREDIRECTREF    | no  | yes        | [RFC4437], Section 6      |
| MKWORKSPACE      | no  | yes        | [RFC3253], Section 6.3    |
| MOVE              | no  | yes        | [RFC4918], Section 9.9    |
| ORDERPATCH        | no  | yes        | [RFC3648], Section 7      |
| PATCH            | no  | no        | [RFC5789], Section 2      |
| PROPFIND          | yes  | yes        | [RFC4918], Section 9.1    |
| PROPPATCH        | no  | yes        | [RFC4918], Section 9.2    |
| REBIND            | no  | yes        | [RFC5842], Section 6      |
| REPORT            | yes  | yes        | [RFC3253], Section 3.6    |
| SEARCH            | yes  | yes        | [RFC5323], Section 2      |
| UNBIND            | no  | yes        | [RFC5842], Section 5      |
| UNCHECKOUT        | no  | yes        | [RFC3253], Section 4.5    |
| UNLINK            | no  | yes        | [RFC2068], Section        |
|                  |      |            | 19.6.1.3                  |
| UNLOCK            | no  | yes        | [RFC4918], Section 9.11  |
| UPDATE            | no  | yes        | [RFC3253], Section 7.1    |
| UPDATEREDIRECTREF | no  | yes        | [RFC4437], Section 7      |
| VERSION-CONTROL  | no  | yes        | [RFC3253], Section 3.5    |
+-------------------+------+------------+---------------------------+

IANA understands that this is the only action required to be completed upon approval of this document. 

Note:  The actions requested in this document will not be completed
until the document has been approved for publication as an RFC.
This message is only to confirm what actions will be performed.
2013-10-24
13 Jean Mahoney Request for Last Call review by GENART is assigned to Kathleen Moriarty
2013-10-24
13 Jean Mahoney Request for Last Call review by GENART is assigned to Kathleen Moriarty
2013-10-24
13 Tero Kivinen Request for Last Call review by SECDIR is assigned to Alexey Melnikov
2013-10-24
13 Tero Kivinen Request for Last Call review by SECDIR is assigned to Alexey Melnikov
2013-10-21
13 Amy Vezza IANA Review state changed to IANA - Review Needed
2013-10-21
13 Amy Vezza
The following Last Call announcement was sent out:

From: The IESG
To: IETF-Announce
CC:
Reply-To: ietf@ietf.org
Sender:
Subject: Last Call:  (Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) …
The following Last Call announcement was sent out:

From: The IESG
To: IETF-Announce
CC:
Reply-To: ietf@ietf.org
Sender:
Subject: Last Call:  (Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations) to Informational RFC


The IESG has received a request from the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis
WG (httpbis) to consider the following document:
- 'Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations'
  as Informational RFC

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 2013-11-04. 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


  This document registers those Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
  methods which have been defined in standards-track RFCs before the
  IANA HTTP Method Registry was established.


Note that this document is part of a set, which should be reviewed together:

* draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth
* draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations
* draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations

The file can be obtained via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations/

Once IESG evaluation begins, IESG discussion can be tracked via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations/ballot/

No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
2013-10-21
13 Amy Vezza State changed to In Last Call from Last Call Requested
2013-10-21
13 Barry Leiba Last call was requested
2013-10-21
13 Barry Leiba Ballot approval text was generated
2013-10-21
13 Barry Leiba State changed to Last Call Requested from AD Evaluation
2013-10-21
13 Barry Leiba Last call announcement was changed
2013-10-21
13 Barry Leiba Last call announcement was generated
2013-10-19
13 Barry Leiba Ballot writeup was changed
2013-10-19
13 Barry Leiba Ballot writeup was generated
2013-10-18
13 Barry Leiba State changed to AD Evaluation from Publication Requested
2013-10-07
13 Cindy Morgan
1. Summary

Document: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-13
Document Shepherd: Mark Nottingham
Responsible Area Director: Barry Leiba
Publication Type: Proposed Standard

This document registers those Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) …
1. Summary

Document: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-13
Document Shepherd: Mark Nottingham
Responsible Area Director: Barry Leiba
Publication Type: Proposed Standard

This document registers those Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) methods which
have been defined in standards-track RFCs before the IANA HTTP Method Registry
was established.

Note that this document is part of a set, which should be reviewed together:

* draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth
* draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations
* draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations

2. Review and Consensus

As chartered, this work was very constrained; the WG sought only to clarify
RFC2616, making significant technical changes only where there were
considerably interoperability or security issues.

While the bulk of the work was done by a core team of editors, it has been
reviewed by a substantial number of implementers, and design issues enjoyed
input from many of them.

It has been through Working Group Last Call, with multiple reviewers. We have
also discussed this work with external groups (e.g., the W3C TAG).

3. Intellectual Property

There are no IPR disclosures against this document. The author has confirmed
that he has no direct, personal knowledge of IPR related to this document that
has not been disclosed.

4. Other Points

Downward references: None.

New registries created: None.

Updated registries: None.
2013-10-07
13 Mark Nottingham IETF WG state changed to Submitted to IESG for Publication
2013-10-07
13 Mark Nottingham IESG state changed to Publication Requested
2013-10-07
13 Mark Nottingham Working group state set to Submitted to IESG for Publication
2013-10-07
13 Mark Nottingham IESG state set to Publication Requested
2013-10-07
13 Mark Nottingham Changed document writeup
2013-10-07
13 Mark Nottingham Document shepherd changed to Mark Nottingham
2013-09-25
13 Julian Reschke New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-13.txt
2013-08-06
12 Julian Reschke New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-12.txt
2013-02-23
11 Julian Reschke New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-11.txt
2012-10-13
10 Julian Reschke New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-10.txt
2012-07-16
09 Julian Reschke New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-09.txt
2012-07-05
08 Barry Leiba Responsible AD changed to Barry Leiba from Peter Saint-Andre
2012-07-02
08 Julian Reschke New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-08.txt
2012-01-03
07 (System) New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-07.txt
2011-10-17
07 Peter Saint-Andre Draft added in state AD is watching
2011-07-08
06 (System) New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-06.txt
2011-01-06
05 (System) New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-05.txt
2010-07-12
04 (System) New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-04.txt
2010-03-08
03 (System) New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-03.txt
2009-11-29
07 (System) Document has expired
2009-05-28
02 (System) New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-02.txt
2008-12-01
01 (System) New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-01.txt
2008-09-09
00 (System) New version available: draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-00.txt