Content Negotiation BOF (conneg)

Tuesday, December 9 at 1545-1800
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Chair: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>

DESCRIPTION:

A common theme in many Internet data transfer protocols is an
exchange of information which modifies the form and method of
the data being transferred; in HTTP this is known as 'content
negotiation' (since one is negotiating what will affect the
content-* headers), but the capability exists or is needed in
Internet Fax, printing, and other messaging standards.

Commonly these require protocol elments that describe the
capabilities, characteristics and preferences of recipients;
elements that describe the representation of entities and
alternatives that a sender might send, and extensions
that label additional characteristics of content that are not
captured by the MIME content-type label.

This BOF will consider whether there is broad interest to 
standardize a set of common attributes, to create an IANA 
registry of them, and to consider a set of protocol scenarios 
in which negotiation of such elements could take place.

Internet drafts (some scheduled for Experimental RFC) to be 
considered at the BOF include:

draft-ietf-http-alternates-00.txt
draft-ietf-http-negotiate-scenario-01.txt
draft-ietf-http-negotiation-04.txt
draft-ietf-http-rvsa-v10-02.txt
draft-ietf-http-feature-scenarios-01.txt
draft-ietf-http-feature-reg-02.txt
draft-mutz-http-attributes-02.txt
draft-wing-smtp-capabilities-00.txt

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