Its official now ... RFC616 is obsolete!
On 7/06/2014 2:20 p.m., Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Oh! And one more thank you, to Mark Baker for serving as Shepherd for the
> Caching doc.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> On 6 Jun 2014, at 10:09 pm, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>
>> Just a quick note -
>>
>> The revision of HTTP/1.1’s specification, obsoleting RFC2616, is complete.
>>
>> See:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230 - Message Syntax and Routing
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231 - Semantics and Content
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7232 - Conditional Requests
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7233 - Range Requests
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234 - Caching
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7235 - Authentication
>>
>> Along with the related documents:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7236 - Authentication Scheme Registrations
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7237 - Method Registrations
>>
>> Thanks to everyone who has commented upon, reviewed and otherwise
>> contributed to them over this nearly seven-year(!) effort.
>>
>> Special thanks to our Area Directors over the years: Lisa Dusseault, Alexey
>> Melnikov, Peter Saint-Andre and Barry Leiba, along with Yves Lafon, who
>> helped edit Range Requests.
>>
>> Finally, please warmly thank both Roy Fielding and Julian Reschke the next
>> time you see them (I believe beer would be appreciated); the amount of
>> effort that they put into these documents is far, far more than they
>> originally signed up for, and they’ve done an excellent job.
>>
>> Now, onwards to HTTP/2...
>>
>> P.S. This document set’s completion also has enabled the publication of
>> these related non-WG documents:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7238 - The Hypertext Transfer Protocol Status
>> Code 308 (Permanent Redirect)
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7239 - Forwarded HTTP Extension
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7240 - Prefer Header for HTTP
>>
