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Announcement
From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab@iab.org>,
RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>
Subject: Protocol Action: 'Character Set and Language Encoding for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Header Field Parameters' to Proposed Standard
The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Character Set and Language Encoding for Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP) Header Field Parameters '
<draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http-12.txt> as a Proposed Standard
This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an
IETF Working Group.
The IESG contact person is Alexey Melnikov.
A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http-12.txt
Ballot Text
Technical Summary
This specification defines a simplified mechanism for encoding
arbitrary (e.g. non-ASCII) characters in HTTP header field parameters.
By default, message header field parameters in Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP) messages can not carry characters outside the ISO-
8859-1 character set. RFC 2231 defines an escaping mechanism for use
in Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) headers. This
document specifies a profile of that encoding suitable for use in
HTTP header fields.
There are multiple HTTP header fields that already use RFC 2231
encoding in practice (Content-Disposition) or might use it in the
future (Link). The purpose of this document is to provide a single
place where the generic aspects of RFC 2231 encoding in HTTP header
fields are defined.
Working Group Summary
This document is an individual submission, but has been reviewed
on the HTTP mailing list.
Document Quality
This document is a clarification and simplification of an existing
protocol specification, and reviewers indicate the simplifications
are well-judged and match practical use in HTTP.
Also, the draft claims that, as of January 2010, there were at least
three independent implementations of the encoding defined in Section
3.2: Konqueror (trunk), Mozilla Firefox, and Opera.
Personnel
Graham Klyne is the Document Shepherd for this document.
Alexey Melnikov is the Responsible Area Director