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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Ira,<div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 16, 2019, at 3:18 PM, Ira McDonald <<a href="mailto:blueroofmusic@gmail.com" class="">blueroofmusic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi Mike,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Prototype is not required for a Best Practice, but it's been done.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">NOTHING in Process/3.0 or our PWG tradition says that, in fact,</div><div class="">everything has to be prototyped. A simple email from Smith that</div><div class="">says what HP has implemented would be a plus. Apple CUPS</div><div class="">has certainly done 'negotiate' and 'certificate' right? What about</div><div class="">'oauth'?<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>We have the code to support 'certificate' but have not shipped a cupsd that supports it. Similarly, code to allow 'oauth' to be used was added in 2.2.7 or so but nothing uses it yet. 'requesting-user-name', 'basic', 'digest', and 'negotiate' have been implemented for a very long time.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Anyways, since this document is just referencing already-defined values for specs that have already been prototyped and documenting how to best implement then, I think we've satisfied any implied prototyping requirement.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">But specs that get Formal Vote do need to go Interim --> Prototype</div><div class="">--> Stable (and not just LC/Vote on Interim). I'd be happy to say that</div><div class="">the current draft was *meant* to be Prototype and voice vote it into</div><div class="">Stable for WG LC.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Again, Process/3.0 has always been vague about the "prototype" status of non-standards-track documents - initial, interim, and stable are all called out but not prototype... :/</div><div><br class=""></div><div class="">
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