Last Call Review of draft-koster-rep-08
review-koster-rep-08-intdir-lc-weber-2022-05-29-00
Request | Review of | draft-koster-rep |
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Requested revision | No specific revision (document currently at 12) | |
Type | Last Call Review | |
Team | Internet Area Directorate (intdir) | |
Deadline | 2022-06-02 | |
Requested | 2022-05-11 | |
Requested by | Éric Vyncke | |
Authors | Martijn Koster , Gary Illyes , Henner Zeller , Lizzi Sassman | |
I-D last updated | 2022-05-29 | |
Completed reviews |
Secdir Last Call review of -10
by Tirumaleswar Reddy.K
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Artart Last Call review of -06 by Todd Herr (diff) Artart Last Call review of -08 by Todd Herr (diff) Intdir Last Call review of -08 by Ralf Weber (diff) |
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Assignment | Reviewer | Ralf Weber |
State | Completed | |
Request | Last Call review on draft-koster-rep by Internet Area Directorate Assigned | |
Posted at | https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/int-dir/_kfSG899eSFcfGA4imf8aLCzPdI | |
Reviewed revision | 08 (document currently at 12) | |
Result | Ready w/issues | |
Completed | 2022-05-29 |
review-koster-rep-08-intdir-lc-weber-2022-05-29-00
Moin! I am an assigned INT directorate reviewer for draft-koster-rep. These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the Internet Area Directors. Document editors and shepherd(s) should treat these comments just like they would treat comments from any other IETF contributors and resolve them along with any other Last Call comments that have been received. For more details on the INT Directorate, see https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/intdir/about/ While the document technically defines the content of the robots.txt files it could do a better job in describing with examples the semantic of how robots interpret them. Especially in 2.2.1 the notation of "Crawlers MUST find the group that matches the product token exactly" should be better explained. I assume it does not mean being fully equal but instead a substring match in the User-Agent Header, so in the example would also match a http user agent of ExampleBotnet/1.2. Is that understanding correct at least? Also the examples in 5 seem a lot more arbirtary than what the ROBOTSTXT website has and it should explain all the outcomes, e.g in 5.1 it would allow access to all crawlers and all paths, but the foobot, barbot and bazbot /example/disallowed.gif. An example with a * group would be better and more realistic. So long -Ralf