HTTPAPI WG Meeting - IETF 117

Thursday, July 27, 2023 16:30-18:30 UTC

• Chairs: Darrel Miller, Rich Salz
• Meetecho: https://gce.conf.meetecho.com/conference/?group=httpapi
• Zulip: https://zulip.ietf.org/#narrow/stream/223-httpapi
• Minutes: https://codimd.ietf.org/notes-ietf-117-httpapi

Administrivia (5 mins)

• Note well
• Francesca on leave 1 April -- 31 August
• Note-taker
• Zulip/Meetecho Scribe
• Agenda bashing

WG Documents - Status Update (20 mins)

• YAML Media Type In RFC Editor Queue

• Link-Template HTTP Header Field Revised I-D needed. Waiting on sfBis for internationalization.

• Problem Details Waiting for announcement. RFC

• REST API Media Types Split this?

• Deprecation Header - Any volunteers to become authors? Do we expand this to cover general lifecycle? (See previous question) If not, we mark this as parked?

• draft-ietf-httpapi-authentication-link Updates?

WG Document Presentations (30 mins)

The Idempotency-Key HTTP Header Field

• David Benjamin asks if generic clients can use Idempotency Key without apriori knowledge of server support. https://github.com/ietf-wg-httpapi/idempotency/pull/27/files

Rate Limit Headers

• Proposal for "policy" identifer.

New docs (60 mins)

• api-catalog Kevin Smith, Vodafone - What about service descriptions?
• Byte Range Patch; Austin William Wright
• Relative JSON Pointer Henry Andrews
• Link hints; Mark Nottingham - Adoption?

Discussions/Any Other Business (5 mins)