Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching
RFC 7234
Yes
No Objection
Note: This ballot was opened for revision 24 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
Please see Lionel's OPS-DIR review, and please engage in the discussion:
#1: Section 1.2.1. Delta Seconds
"A recipient parsing a delta-seconds value and converting it to binary
form ought to use an arithmetic type of at least 31 bits of non-
negative integer range."
How should the "ought to" above be interpreted? If it is a recommendation, "SHOULD" is maybe more appropriate.
#2: section 4.3.1. Sending a Validation Request
No normative wording is used in this section, especially there is no "MUST" and "MUST NOT". It seems therefore that this part is only for information and provides some guidelines for sending validation requests. Is it really the intention here?
#3: section 5.2. Cache-Control
"For the directives defined below that define arguments, recipients ought
to accept both forms, even if one is documented to be preferred. For any
directive not defined by this specification, a recipient MUST accept both
forms."
"MUST" seems more appropriate than "ought to" in the first sentence above. As I understand the rest of the document, a recommendation can be given in the form to use for a given directive (when applicable) but it is expected that both forms will be always accepted by the cache. As a consequence,it does not seem so relevant to make the difference between directives defined in this document and in other documents.
#4: section 5.5. Warning
It could be clarified that Warn-text are only intended to be human readable or to be logged and should not affect the interpretation of the warn-code.
(Brian Haberman; former steering group member) No Objection
(Jari Arkko; former steering group member) No Objection
(Joel Jaeggli; former steering group member) No Objection
(Martin Stiemerling; former steering group member) No Objection
(Richard Barnes; former steering group member) No Objection
COMMENT 1: In Section 1, a minor suggestion: OLD: "A private cache, in contrast, is dedicated to a single user." NEW: "A private cache, in contrast, is dedicated to a single user, for instance as a component of a user agent." COMMENT 2: In Section 3, you use "cache directive", "cache response directive", and "response cache directive". Choose one.
(Sean Turner; former steering group member) No Objection
*) I'll not repeats the OWS discuss point from p1. If it gets changed there I assume it will get changed here. If not then this can be ignored. 0) Abstract: Maybe would add stateless in front of protocol in the description. 1) What Stephen said about cache poising.
(Spencer Dawkins; former steering group member) No Objection
(Stephen Farrell; former steering group member) No Objection
- section 8: It would be very useful to add some references where cache poisoning and how to handle it are explained in more detail.
(Stewart Bryant; former steering group member) No Objection