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Shepherd writeup
draft-ietf-httpbis-rfc7238bis

1. Summary

Mark Nottingham is document shepherd and Working Group Chair. Barry
Leiba is the responsible Area Director.

This document specifies the additional Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP) status code 308 (Permanent Redirect). It is a republication of
RFC7238 with no technical changes, to update the status from
Experimental to Proposed Standard, since there has been good deployment
experience with the status code.

2. Review and Consensus

At IETF 90, Julian Reschke made a presentation about the state of the
current HTTP RFCs, including 7238:
  http://httpwg.github.io/wg-materials/ietf90/ietf-90-httpbis-progressing.pdf

There, he demonstrated that support for the 308 status code was good in
deployed implementations:
  http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc/httpredirects/#l-308

... and suggested that this being the case, we update the status of the
document from Experimental to Proposed Standard.

Broad support for doing so was expressed at the meeting, and confirmed
on-list.

3. Intellectual Property

Julian confirms that he has no direct, personal knowledge of IPR related
to this document.

No other disclosures regarding this document have been made.

4. Other Points

This document has no downward references, and the IANA Considerations
seem appropriate. Since this is a direct copy of RC7238, additional
review did not seem necessary.

We initially tried to handle this with a status-change document, but
that had to be abandoned when we decided on a minor change in Section 4.
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