On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:16:36 GMT, Lloyd Wood said:
When did the IETF ever have responsibility for HTML, exactly?
Well, searching for 'html' or 'hypertext' in rfc-index.tct, I find:
1866 Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0. T. Berners-Lee, D. Connolly.
November 1995. (Format: TXT=146904 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
1867 Form-based File Upload in HTML. E. Nebel, L. Masinter. November
1995. (Format: TXT=26183 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
1942 HTML Tables. D. Raggett. May 1996. (Format: TXT=68705 bytes)
(Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
1945 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0. T. Berners-Lee, R.
Fielding & H. Frystyk. May 1996. (Format: TXT=137582 bytes) (Status:
INFORMATIONAL)
1980 A Proposed Extension to HTML : Client-Side Image Maps. J.
Seidman. August 1996. (Format: TXT=13448 bytes) (Status:
INFORMATIONAL)
2070 Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language. F.
Yergeau, G. Nicol, G. Adams, M. Duerst. January 1997. (Format:
TXT=91887 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2110 MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML
(MHTML). J. Palme, A. Hopmann. March 1997. (Format: TXT=41961 bytes)
(Obsoleted by RFC2557) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2557 MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML).
J. Palme, A. Hopmann, N. Shelness. March 1999. (Format: TXT=61854
bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2110) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2659 Security Extensions For HTML. E. Rescorla, A. Schiffman. August
1999. (Format: TXT=8134 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
2731 Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML. J. Kunze. December 1999.
(Format: TXT=42450 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
Obviously we care enough to issue RFCs about them - some are even Proposed
Standard..
I've left rfc2324 out of the list.. ;)
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Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech