+1 (binding) On Tue, Oct 6, 2026 at 12:29 AM Szehon Ho <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 > > Thanks > Szehon > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2026 at 2:44 PM Jones, Danny via dev < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 (non-binding) >> >> >> >> Thanks for driving standardization here! >> >> >> >> Danny >> >> >> >> *From: *Neelesh Salian <[email protected]> >> *Reply to: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> *Date: *Monday, 5 October 2026 at 22:31 >> *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> *Subject: *RE: [EXTERNAL] [VOTE] Recommend a standard User-Agent format >> for REST clients [REOPEN] >> >> >> >> *CAUTION*: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do >> not click links or open attachments unless you can confirm the sender and >> know the content is safe. >> >> >> >> +1 (non-binding) >> >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 15:23 rahul mahadev <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> [Reopning voting after going through reviews from @adutra] >> >> Hi all, >> >> Following the discussion thread [1], I'd like to call a vote on >> standardizing the client User-Agent format in the REST catalog spec. >> >> What a +1 endorses: >> >> - Clients identify themselves with the standard HTTP User-Agent header >> (RFC 7231): whitespace-separated product/version tokens, most specific >> first (engine, then any integration or connector, then the Iceberg >> library, then the runtime), with an optional parenthesized comment for >> extra context. Example: >> >> Spark/4.0.0 iceberg-spark/1.9.0 iceberg-java/1.9.0 (scala 2.13.16) >> >> - When the header is sent, the Iceberg library token (iceberg-java, >> pyiceberg, iceberg-rust, iceberg-go) must be present. >> - The header is advisory. Servers must not reject a request just because >> it is missing or malformed, and must not use it for authentication. >> Servers may refuse operations from client versions known to be unsafe. >> It is not a capability negotiation mechanism. >> >> The spec change is in PR [2]. If the vote passes, the follow-ups are >> conforming the client libraries (java, python, rust, go) to emit this >> format. >> >> >> [ ] +1 Adopt this User-Agent format in the REST spec >> [ ] 0 >> [ ] -1 Do not adopt (please explain) >> >> Thanks, >> Rahul >> >> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/d6hkx66o8qc1lolh11l1lmswxlq0bpj9 >> [2] https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/17727 >> >>
