Prefer Header for HTTP
draft-snell-http-prefer-18

Note: This ballot was opened for revision 15 and is now closed.

(Barry Leiba; former steering group member) Yes

(Adrian Farrel; former steering group member) No Objection

(Benoît Claise; former steering group member) No Objection

(Brian Haberman; former steering group member) No Objection

(Gonzalo Camarillo; former steering group member) No Objection

(Martin Stiemerling; former steering group member) No Objection

(Pete Resnick; former steering group member) (was Discuss) No Objection

(Ralph Droms; former steering group member) No Objection

(Robert Sparks; former steering group member) No Objection

Given that the document points to the similarity between Prefer and Expect, consider being explicit about not using tokens defined for Prefer in Expect header fields and vice-versa. You might also provide guidance about whether to use the same token in both if you are defining a behavior that would make sense to use in both places.

Did you consider whether a client would ever need to say "I prefer thing X most, Y if you won't do that, and Z if you wont't do that"? Does anything here prevent adding something later that would capture that semantic? (I don't think so, parameters could be added to group preferences and give them weights for instance).

Why isn't the SHOULD in "The Prefer header field is end-to-end and SHOULD be forwarded unless" not a MUST?

Do you want to say anything about the order of parameters on a given header field value being significant or not? (Do you inherit a not from the base spec?)

(Ron Bonica; former steering group member) No Objection

(Russ Housley; former steering group member) No Objection

(Sean Turner; former steering group member) No Objection

(Stephen Farrell; former steering group member) No Objection

-16 addressed my other comments, (thanks), not sure if these
were missed or not but don't think I saw any response

- Is "relation types" correct in section 4, 1st para?

- 4.3, where is delta-seconds defined?

(Stewart Bryant; former steering group member) No Objection

(Wesley Eddy; former steering group member) No Objection