HTTPbis Working GroupInternet Engineering Task Force (IETF) J. ReschkeInternet-DraftRequest for Comments: 7237 greenbytesIntended status:Category: InformationalFebruary 6, 2014 Expires: August 10,June 2014 ISSN: 2070-1721 Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrationsdraft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-15Abstract This document registers those Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) methodswhichthat have been defined in RFCs before the IANA HTTP Method Registry was established.Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor) Discussion of this draft takes place on the HTTPBIS working group mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/>. The current issues list is at <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/ trac/query?component=method-registrations> and related documents (including fancy diffs) can be found at <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/>. 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Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Appendix A. Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 A.1. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-13 . . . . . 6 A.2. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-14 . . . . . 61. Introduction This document registers those Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) methodswhichthat have been defined in RFCs other than[draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics][RFC7231] before the IANA HTTP Method Registry was established. 2. Security Considerations There are no security considerations related to the registration itself. Security considerations applicable to the individual HTTP methods ought to be discussed in the specifications that define them. 3. IANA Considerations The table below provides registrations of HTTP method namesto bethat have been added to the IANAHTTP"Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) MethodregistryRegistry" at <http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-methods> (see Section 8.1 of[draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics]).[RFC7231]). +-------------------+------+------------+---------------------------+ | Method Name | Safe | Idempotent | Reference | +-------------------+------+------------+---------------------------+ | ACL | no | yes | [RFC3744], Section 8.1 | | BASELINE-CONTROL | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 12.6 | | BIND | no | yes | [RFC5842], Section 4 | | CHECKIN | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 4.4 | | | | | and [RFC3253], Section | | | | | 9.4 | | CHECKOUT | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 4.3 | | | | | and [RFC3253], Section | | | | | 8.8 | | COPY | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.8 | | LABEL | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 8.2 | | LINK | no | yes | [RFC2068], Section | | | | | 19.6.1.2 | | LOCK | no | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.10 | | MERGE | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 11.2 | | MKACTIVITY | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 13.5 | | MKCALENDAR | no | yes | [RFC4791], Section 5.3.1 | | MKCOL | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.3 | | MKREDIRECTREF | no | yes | [RFC4437], Section 6 | | MKWORKSPACE | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 6.3 | | MOVE | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.9 | | ORDERPATCH | no | yes | [RFC3648], Section 7 | | PATCH | no | no | [RFC5789], Section 2 | | PROPFIND | yes | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.1 | | PROPPATCH | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.2 | | REBIND | no | yes | [RFC5842], Section 6 | | REPORT | yes | yes | [RFC3253], Section 3.6 | | SEARCH | yes | yes | [RFC5323], Section 2 | | UNBIND | no | yes | [RFC5842], Section 5 | | UNCHECKOUT | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 4.5 | | UNLINK | no | yes | [RFC2068], Section | | | | | 19.6.1.3 | | UNLOCK | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.11 | | UPDATE | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 7.1 | | UPDATEREDIRECTREF | no | yes | [RFC4437], Section 7 | | VERSION-CONTROL | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 3.5 | +-------------------+------+------------+---------------------------+ 4. Normative References [RFC2068] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Nielsen, H., and T.Berners- Lee,Berners-Lee, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2068, January 1997. [RFC3253] Clemm, G., Amsden, J., Ellison, T., Kaler, C., and J. Whitehead, "Versioning Extensions to WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning)", RFC 3253, March 2002. [RFC3648] Whitehead, J. and J. Reschke, Ed., "Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Ordered Collections Protocol", RFC 3648, December 2003. [RFC3744] Clemm, G., Reschke, J., Sedlar, E., and J. Whitehead, "Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Access Control Protocol", RFC 3744, May 2004. [RFC4437] Whitehead, J., Clemm, G., and J. Reschke, Ed., "Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Redirect Reference Resources", RFC 4437, March 2006. [RFC4791] Daboo, C., Desruisseaux, B., and L. Dusseault, "Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)", RFC 4791, March 2007. [RFC4918] Dusseault, L., Ed., "HTTP Extensions for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)", RFC 4918, June 2007. [RFC5323] Reschke, J., Ed., Reddy, S., Davis, J., and A. Babich, "Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) SEARCH", RFC 5323, November 2008. [RFC5789] Dusseault, L. and J. Snell, "PATCH Method for HTTP", RFC 5789, March 2010. [RFC5842] Clemm, G., Crawford, J., Reschke, J., Ed., and J. Whitehead, "Binding Extensions to Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)", RFC 5842, April 2010.[draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics][RFC7231] Fielding, R., Ed. and J. Reschke, Ed., "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content",draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-26 (work in progress), February 2014. Appendix A. Change Log (to be removed byRFCEditor before publication) Changes up to the IETF Last Call draft are summarized in <http:// trac.tools.ietf.org/html/ draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-13#appendix-B>. A.1. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-13 Closed issues: o <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/514>: "registration tables should be inside IANA considerations" Clarified the IANA action to say "add". Updated httpbis reference. A.2. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-14 Closed issues: o <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/529>: "IESG ballot on draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-14" Removed misleading statement about "standards-track" RFCs, as some of the methods registered here indeed originate from Experimental RFCs, and furthermore the new registry established in Section 8.1 of [draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics] uses "IETF Review". Updated httpbis reference.7231, June 2014. Author's Address Julian F. Reschke greenbytes GmbH Hafenweg 16 Muenster, NW 48155 Germany EMail: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de URI: http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/