1 | The -06 drafts contain quite a number of substantive changes, plus major
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2 | rewrites in Parts 1 (URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing) and 6 (Caching).
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3 | All non-editorial changes should be mentioned in the "Changes Since ..."
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4 | appendices; diffs are available from tools.ietf.org (linked from the HTMLized
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5 | versions) and from
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6 | <http://svn.tools.ietf.org/svn/wg/httpbis/draft-ietf-httpbis/diffs/>.
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8 | The top changes are:
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10 | - Many parts of Part 6 (Caching) have been rewritten from scratch, resulting
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11 | in a more concise spec. There are several open issues and TODOS related
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12 | to this change, so please carefully review this part in general, and also
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13 | pay attention to the inlined comments.
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15 | - All the issues around the BNF format and implied LWS have been resolved, see
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16 | <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36> for details.
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18 | - In Part 1, the HTTP URL definition has been updated to be based on RFC 3986,
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19 | quite some text in the introductory chapters has been updated, and lots
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20 | of historic stuff (better summarized in RFC 3986) has been removed.
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22 | We think the issue below have been resolved with these drafts, and are
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23 | planning to close them soon:
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25 | - #30: "Header LWS" (<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/30>)
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26 | - #63: "RFC2047 encoded words" (<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/63>)
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27 | - #74: "Character Encodings in TEXT" (<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/74>)
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28 | - #77: "Line folding" (<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/77>)
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29 | - #83: "OPTIONS * and proxies" (<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/83>)
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30 | - #85: "Custom Ranges" (<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/85>)
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31 | - #111: "Use of TEXT" (<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/111>)
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