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        <front>
  <title abbrev="HTTP Method Registrations">Initial Hypertext&#160;Transfer&#160;Protocol&#160;(HTTP)
  Method&#160;Registrations</title>

  <author initials="J. F." surname="Reschke" fullname="Julian F. Reschke">
    <organization abbrev="greenbytes">greenbytes GmbH</organization>
    <address>
      <postal>
        <street>Hafenweg 16</street>
        <city>Muenster</city><region>NW</region><code>48155</code>
        <country>Germany</country>
      </postal>
      <email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email>       
      <uri>http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/</uri>      
    </address>
  </author>

  <date month="March" year="2010" day="8"/>
  <workgroup>HTTPbis Working Group</workgroup>
  
  <abstract>
  <t>
    This document registers those Hypertext Transfer
    Protocol (HTTP) methods which have been defined in standards-track RFCs
    before the IANA HTTP Method Registry was established.
  </t>
  </abstract>
  
  </front>

  <middle>

<section title="Introduction" anchor="introduction">
  <t>
    This document registers those Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) methods
    which have been defined in standards-track RFCs before the IANA HTTP Method
    Registry was established.
  </t>
</section>  
  
<section title="Security Considerations" anchor="security.considerations">
  <t>
    There are no security considerations related to the registration itself.
  </t>
</section>  

<section title="IANA Considerations" anchor="iana.considerations">
<t>
  <xref target="updated.registry.contents"/> provides initial registrations
  of HTTP method names for the IANA HTTP Method registry 
  at <eref target="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-methods"/>
  (see <xref target="draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics" x:rel="#method.registry"/>).
</t>
</section>  
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  <back>
  
<references title="Normative References">


<reference anchor="draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="HTTP/1.1">HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics</title>
    <author initials="R." surname="Fielding" fullname="Roy T. Fielding" role="editor">
      <organization abbrev="Day Software">Day Software</organization>
      <address><email>fielding@gbiv.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Gettys" fullname="Jim Gettys">
      <organization>One Laptop per Child</organization>
      <address><email>jg@laptop.org</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Mogul" fullname="Jeffrey C. Mogul">
      <organization abbrev="HP">Hewlett-Packard Company</organization>
      <address><email>JeffMogul@acm.org</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="H." surname="Frystyk" fullname="Henrik Frystyk Nielsen">
      <organization abbrev="Microsoft">Microsoft Corporation</organization>
      <address><email>henrikn@microsoft.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="L." surname="Masinter" fullname="Larry Masinter">
      <organization abbrev="Adobe Systems">Adobe Systems, Incorporated</organization>
      <address><email>LMM@acm.org</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="P." surname="Leach" fullname="Paul J. Leach">
      <organization abbrev="Microsoft">Microsoft Corporation</organization>
      <address><email>paulle@microsoft.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="T." surname="Berners-Lee" fullname="Tim Berners-Lee">
      <organization abbrev="W3C/MIT">World Wide Web Consortium</organization>
      <address><email>timbl@w3.org</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="Y." surname="Lafon" fullname="Yves Lafon" role="editor">
      <organization abbrev="W3C">World Wide Web Consortium</organization>
      <address><email>ylafon@w3.org</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J. F." surname="Reschke" fullname="Julian F. Reschke" role="editor">
      <organization abbrev="greenbytes">greenbytes GmbH</organization>
      <address><email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email></address>
    </author>
    <date month="March" year="2010"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-09"/>
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</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC2068">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="HTTP/1.1">Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1</title>
    <author initials="R." surname="Fielding" fullname="Roy T. Fielding">
      <organization>University of California, Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>fielding@ics.uci.edu</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Gettys" fullname="Jim Gettys">
      <organization>MIT Laboratory for Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>jg@w3.org</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Mogul" fullname="Jeffrey C. Mogul">
      <organization>Digital Equipment Corporation, Western Research Laboratory</organization>
      <address><email>mogul@wrl.dec.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="H." surname="Nielsen" fullname="Henrik Frystyk Nielsen">
      <organization>MIT Laboratory for Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>frystyk@w3.org</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="T." surname="Berners-Lee" fullname="Tim Berners-Lee">
      <organization>MIT Laboratory for Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>timbl@w3.org</email></address>
    </author>
    <date month="January" year="1997"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="2068"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC3253">
  <front>
    <title>Versioning Extensions to WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning)</title>
    <author initials="G." surname="Clemm" fullname="G. Clemm">
      <organization>Rational Software</organization>
      <address><email>geoffrey.clemm@rational.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Amsden" fullname="J. Amsden">
      <organization>IBM</organization>
      <address><email>jamsden@us.ibm.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="T." surname="Ellison" fullname="T. Ellison">
      <organization>IBM</organization>
      <address><email>tim_ellison@uk.ibm.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="C." surname="Kaler" fullname="C. Kaler">
      <organization>Microsoft</organization>
      <address><email>ckaler@microsoft.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Whitehead" fullname="J. Whitehead">
      <organization>UC Santa Cruz, Dept. of Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>ejw@cse.ucsc.edu</email></address>
    </author>
    <date month="March" year="2002"/>
    </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="3253"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor='RFC3648'>
  <front>
    <title abbrev='WebDAV Ordered Collections Protocol'>Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Ordered Collections Protocol</title>
    <author initials='J.' surname='Whitehead' fullname='Jim Whitehead'>
      <organization abbrev='U.C. Santa Cruz'>UC Santa Cruz, Dept. of Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>ejw@cse.ucsc.edu</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials='J. F.' surname='Reschke' fullname='Julian F. Reschke' role='editor'>
      <organization abbrev='greenbytes'>greenbytes GmbH</organization>
      <address><email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email></address>
    </author>
    <date year='2003' month='December' />
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name='RFC' value='3648' />
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC3744">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="WebDAV Access Control Protocol">Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Access Control Protocol</title>
    <author initials="G." surname="Clemm" fullname="Geoffrey Clemm">
      <organization>IBM</organization>
      <address><email>geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J. F." surname="Reschke" fullname="Julian F. Reschke">
      <organization abbrev="greenbytes">greenbytes GmbH</organization>
      <address><email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="E." surname="Sedlar" fullname="Eric Sedlar">
      <organization>Oracle Corporation</organization>
      <address><email>eric.sedlar@oracle.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Whitehead" fullname="Jim Whitehead">
      <organization abbrev="U.C. Santa Cruz">U.C. Santa Cruz, Dept. of Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>ejw@cse.ucsc.edu</email></address>
    </author>
    <date month="May" year="2004"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="3744"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC4437">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="WebDAV Redirect Reference Resources">Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Redirect Reference Resources</title>
    <author initials="J." surname="Whitehead" fullname="Jim Whitehead">
      <organization abbrev="U.C. Santa Cruz">UC Santa Cruz, Dept. of Computer Science</organization>
      <address>
        <email>ejw@cse.ucsc.edu</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="G." surname="Clemm" fullname="Geoff Clemm">
      <organization>IBM</organization>
      <address>
        <email>geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J. F." surname="Reschke" fullname="Julian F. Reschke" role="editor">
      <organization abbrev="greenbytes">greenbytes GmbH</organization>
      <address>
       <email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <date month="March" year="2006"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="4437"/>
</reference>  

<reference anchor="RFC4791">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="CalDAV">Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)</title>
    <author initials="C." surname="Daboo" fullname="Cyrus Daboo">
      <organization abbrev="Apple">Apple Inc.</organization>
      <address>
        <email>cyrus@daboo.name</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="B." surname="Desruisseaux" fullname="Bernard Desruisseaux">
      <organization abbrev="Oracle">Oracle Corporation</organization>
      <address>
        <email>bernard.desruisseaux@oracle.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="L.M." surname="Dusseault" fullname="Lisa Dusseault">
      <organization abbrev="CommerceNet">CommerceNet</organization>
      <address>
        <email>ldusseault@commerce.net</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <date month="March" year="2007"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="4791"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC4918">
  <front>
    <title>HTTP Extensions for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)</title>
    <author initials="L." surname="Dusseault" fullname="Lisa Dusseault" role="editor">
      <organization>CommerceNet</organization>
      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>2064 Edgewood Dr.</street>
          <city>Palo Alto</city> <region>CA</region> <code>94303</code>
          <country>US</country>
        </postal>
        <email>ldusseault@commerce.net</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <date month="June" year="2007"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="4918"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC5323">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="WebDAV SEARCH">Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) SEARCH</title>
                
    <author initials="J. F." surname="Reschke" fullname="Julian F. Reschke" role="editor">
        <organization abbrev="greenbytes">greenbytes GmbH</organization>
                <address>
        <postal>
          <street>Hafenweg 16</street>
          <city>Muenster</city><region>NW</region><code>48155</code>
          <country>Germany</country>
        </postal>
                  <phone>+49 251 2807760</phone>        
                        <email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email>     
                        <uri>http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/</uri>    
                </address>
        </author>
      
        <author initials="S." surname="Reddy" fullname="Surendra Reddy">
                <organization abbrev="Mitrix">Mitrix, Inc.</organization>
                <address>
            <postal>
            <street>303 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 600-37</street>
                <city>Redwood City</city><region>CA</region><code>94065</code>
          <country>U.S.A.</country>
        </postal>
        <phone>+1 408 500 1135</phone>
        <email>Surendra.Reddy@mitrix.com</email>
          </address>
    </author>
      
    <author initials="J." surname="Davis" fullname="Jim Davis">
                <address>
        <postal>
          <street>27 Borden Street</street>
          <city>Toronto</city><region>Ontario</region><code>M5S 2M8</code>
          <country>Canada</country>
        </postal>
        <phone>+1 416 929 5854</phone>
        <email>jrd3@alum.mit.edu</email>
        <uri>http://www.econetwork.net/~jdavis</uri>
      </address>
    </author>
  
        <author initials="A." surname="Babich" fullname="Alan Babich">
                <organization abbrev="IBM">IBM Corporation</organization>
      <address>
                        <postal>
          <street>3565 Harbor Blvd.</street>
          <city>Costa Mesa</city><region>CA</region><code>92626</code>
          <country>U.S.A.</country>
        </postal>
        <phone>+1 714 327 3403</phone>
        <email>ababich@us.ibm.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>    
  
    <date month="November" year="2008"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="5323"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor="draft-ietf-webdav-bind">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="Binding Extensions to WebDAV">Binding Extensions to Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)</title>
    <author initials="G." surname="Clemm" fullname="Geoffrey Clemm">
      <organization>IBM</organization>
      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>20 Maguire Road</street>
          <city>Lexington</city>
          <region>MA</region>
          <code>02421</code>
        </postal>
        <email>geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Crawford" fullname="Jason Crawford">
      <organization>IBM Research</organization>
      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>P.O. Box 704</street>
          <city>Yorktown Heights</city>
          <region>NY</region>
          <code>10598</code>
        </postal>
        <email>ccjason@us.ibm.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
        <author initials="J. F." surname="Reschke" fullname="Julian F. Reschke" role="editor">
                <organization abbrev="greenbytes">greenbytes GmbH</organization>
      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>Hafenweg 16</street>
          <city>Muenster</city><region>NW</region><code>48155</code>
          <country>Germany</country>
        </postal>
                  <email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email>   
                </address>
        </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Whitehead" fullname="Jim Whitehead">
      <organization abbrev="U.C. Santa Cruz">UC Santa Cruz, Dept. of Computer Science</organization>
      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>1156 High Street</street>
          <city>Santa Cruz</city>
          <region>CA</region>
          <code>95064</code>
        </postal>
        <email>ejw@cse.ucsc.edu</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <date month="December" year="2009"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-ietf-webdav-bind-27"/>
  <annotation>
    In RFC Editor Queue, see <eref target="http://www.rfc-editor.org/queue2.html#draft-ietf-webdav-bind"/>.
  </annotation>
</reference>

<reference anchor="draft-dusseault-http-patch">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="HTTP PATCH">PATCH Method for HTTP</title>
    <author initials="L.M." surname="Dusseault" fullname="Lisa Dusseault">
      <organization abbrev="Linden Lab">Linden Lab</organization>
      <address>
        <email>lisa.dusseault@gmail.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J.M." surname="Snell" fullname="James M. Snell">
      <address>
        <email>jasnell@gmail.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <date month="November" year="2009"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-dusseault-http-patch-16"/>
  <annotation>
    In RFC Editor Queue, see <eref target="http://www.rfc-editor.org/queue2.html#draft-dusseault-http-patch"/>.
  </annotation>
</reference>

</references>
  
<!--<references title="Informative References">
</references>-->

<section title="Initial Registry Contents" anchor="updated.registry.contents">
<texttable align="left">

<ttcol>Method Name</ttcol>
<ttcol>Safe</ttcol>
<ttcol>Reference</ttcol>

<c>ACL</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC3744" x:fmt="," x:sec="8.1"/></c>

<c>BASELINE-CONTROL</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="12.6"/></c>
<c>BIND</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="draft-ietf-webdav-bind" x:fmt="," x:sec="4"/></c>

<c>CHECKIN</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="4.4"/> and <xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.4"/></c>
<c>CHECKOUT</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="4.3"/> and <xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="8.8"/></c>
<c>COPY</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC4918" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.8"/></c>

<c>LABEL</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="8.2"/></c>
<c>LINK</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC2068" x:fmt="," x:sec="19.6.1.2"/></c>
<c>LOCK</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC4918" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.10"/></c>

<c>MERGE</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="11.2"/></c>
<c>MKAKTIVITY</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="13.5"/></c>
<c>MKCALENDAR</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC4791" x:fmt="," x:sec="5.3.1"/></c>
<c>MKCOL</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC4918" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.3"/></c>
<c>MKREDIRECTREF</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC4437" x:fmt="," x:sec="6"/></c>
<c>MKWORKSPACE</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="6.3"/></c>
<c>MOVE</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC4918" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.9"/></c>

<c>ORDERPATCH</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC3648" x:fmt="," x:sec="7"/></c>

<c>PATCH</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="draft-dusseault-http-patch" x:fmt="," x:sec="2"/></c>
<c>PROPFIND</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4918" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.1"/></c>
<c>PROPPATCH</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC4918" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.2"/></c>

<c>REBIND</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="draft-ietf-webdav-bind" x:fmt="," x:sec="6"/></c>
<c>REPORT</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="3.6"/></c>

<c>SEARCH</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC5323" x:fmt="," x:sec="2"/></c>

<c>UNBIND</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="draft-ietf-webdav-bind" x:fmt="," x:sec="5"/></c>
<c>UNCHECKOUT</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="4.5"/></c>
<c>UNLINK</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC2068" x:fmt="," x:sec="19.6.1.3"/></c>
<c>UNLOCK</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC4918" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.11"/></c>
<c>UPDATE</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="7.1"/></c>
<c>UPDATEREDIRECTREF</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC4437" x:fmt="," x:sec="7"/></c>

<c>VERSION-CONTROL</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="3.5"/></c>

</texttable>
</section>

<section title="Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)" anchor="change.log">

<section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-method-registrations-00">
<t>
  Added SEARCH method (RFC 5323).
</t>
</section>

<section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-method-registrations-01">
<t>
  Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
</t>
</section>

<section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-method-registrations-02">
<t>
  Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
  PATCH is now defined in draft-dusseault-http-patch.
  BIND, UNBIND and REBIND are defined in draft-ietf-webdav-bind.
  Drop the "updates draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics" clause.
</t>
</section>

</section>


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