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<rfc ipr="trust200902" docName="draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-12" category="info">

        <front>
  <title abbrev="HTTP Method Registrations">Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
  Method 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="August" year="2013" day="6"/>
  <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>
  
  <note title="Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor)">
    <t>
      Discussion of this draft takes place on the HTTPBIS working group
      mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at
      <eref target="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/"/>.
    </t>
    <t>
      The current issues list is at
      <eref target="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/query?component=method-registrations"/> and related
      documents (including fancy diffs) can be found at
      <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/"/>.
    </t>
    <t>
      The changes in this draft are summarized in <xref target="changes.since.11"/>.
    </t>
  </note>

  </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 other than 
    <xref target="draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics"/> 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 Section 8.1 of <xref target="draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics"/>).
</t>
</section>  
  </middle>
  <back>
  
<references title="Normative References">


<reference anchor="draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics">
  <front>
    <title>Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content</title>
    <author initials="R." surname="Fielding" fullname="Roy T. Fielding" role="editor">
      <organization abbrev="Adobe">Adobe Systems Incorporated</organization>
      <address><email>fielding@gbiv.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="July" year="2013"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-23"/>
  
</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>
                        <email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email>     
                </address>
        </author>
        <author initials="S." surname="Reddy" fullname="Surendra Reddy">
                <organization abbrev="Mitrix">Mitrix, Inc.</organization>
                <address>
        <email>Surendra.Reddy@mitrix.com</email>
          </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Davis" fullname="Jim Davis">
                <address>
        <email>jrd3@alum.mit.edu</email>
      </address>
    </author>
        <author initials="A." surname="Babich" fullname="Alan Babich">
                <organization abbrev="IBM">IBM Corporation</organization>
      <address>
        <email>ababich@us.ibm.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>    
    <date month="November" year="2008"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="5323"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC5842">
  <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>
        <email>geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Crawford" fullname="Jason Crawford">
      <organization>IBM Research</organization>
      <address>
        <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>
                  <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>
        <email>ejw@cse.ucsc.edu</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <date month="April" year="2010"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="5842"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC5789">
  <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="March" year="2010"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="5789"/>
</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>Idempotent</ttcol>
<ttcol>Reference</ttcol>

<c>ACL</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3744"/>, Section 8.1</c>

<c>BASELINE-CONTROL</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253"/>, Section 12.6</c>
<c>BIND</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC5842"/>, Section 4</c>

<c>CHECKIN</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253"/>, Section 4.4 and <xref target="RFC3253"/>, Section 9.4</c>
<c>CHECKOUT</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253"/>, Section 4.3 and <xref target="RFC3253"/>, Section 8.8</c>
<c>COPY</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4918"/>, Section 9.8</c>

<c>LABEL</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253"/>, Section 8.2</c>
<c>LINK</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC2068"/>, Section 19.6.1.2</c>
<c>LOCK</c><c>no</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC4918"/>, Section 9.10</c>

<c>MERGE</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253"/>, Section 11.2</c>
<c>MKACTIVITY</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253"/>, Section 13.5</c>
<c>MKCALENDAR</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4791"/>, Section 5.3.1</c>
<c>MKCOL</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4918"/>, Section 9.3</c>
<c>MKREDIRECTREF</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4437"/>, Section 6</c>
<c>MKWORKSPACE</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253"/>, Section 6.3</c>
<c>MOVE</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4918"/>, Section 9.9</c>

<c>ORDERPATCH</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3648"/>, Section 7</c>

<c>PATCH</c><c>no</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC5789"/>, Section 2</c>
<c>PROPFIND</c><c>yes</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4918"/>, Section 9.1</c>
<c>PROPPATCH</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4918"/>, Section 9.2</c>

<c>REBIND</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC5842"/>, Section 6</c>
<c>REPORT</c><c>yes</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253"/>, Section 3.6</c>

<c>SEARCH</c><c>yes</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC5323"/>, Section 2</c>

<c>UNBIND</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC5842"/>, Section 5</c>
<c>UNCHECKOUT</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253"/>, Section 4.5</c>
<c>UNLINK</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC2068"/>, Section 19.6.1.3</c>
<c>UNLOCK</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4918"/>, Section 9.11</c>
<c>UPDATE</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253"/>, Section 7.1</c>
<c>UPDATEREDIRECTREF</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4437"/>, Section 7</c>

<c>VERSION-CONTROL</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253"/>, Section 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-method-registrations-00">
<t>
  Added SEARCH method (RFC 5323).
</t>
</section>

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

<section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-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 title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-03">
<t>
  draft-dusseault-http-patch was published as RFC 5789. draft-ietf-webdav-bind was published as RFC 5842.
  Fix typo in MKACTIVITY entry.
  Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
  Fix change log section titles.
</t>
</section>

<section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-04" anchor="changes.since.04">
<t>
  Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
</t>
</section>

<section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-05" anchor="changes.since.05">
<t>
  Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
</t>
</section>

<section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-06" anchor="changes.since.06">
<t>
  Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
</t>
</section>

<section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-07" anchor="changes.since.07">
<t>
  Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
</t>
</section>

<section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-08" anchor="changes.since.08">
<t>
  Added itempotency information.
  Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
</t>
</section>

<section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-09" anchor="changes.since.09">
<t>
  Closed issues:
  <list style="symbols">
    <t>
      <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/377"/>:
      "what is the idempotency of LINK and UNLINK?"
    </t>
  </list>
</t>
<t>
  Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
</t>
</section>

<section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-10" anchor="changes.since.10">
<t>
  Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
</t>
</section>

<section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-11" anchor="changes.since.11">
<t>
  Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
</t>
</section>

</section>


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