Subject: Protocol Action: 'The Cache-Status HTTP Response Header Field' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-httpbis-cache-header-10.txt)

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:13:15 -0700

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'The Cache-Status HTTP Response Header Field'
  (draft-ietf-httpbis-cache-header-10.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the HTTP Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Murray Kucherawy and Francesca Palombini.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-cache-header/

Technical Summary

To aid debugging, HTTP caches often append header fields to a response explaining how they handled the request.  This specification codifies that practice and updates it to align with HTTP's current caching model.

Working Group Summary

This document went through WG adoption and review quite smoothly. It mainly engaged those members of the WG that work a lot on caching server deployments, who provided input with respect to how this could unify their implementations.

Document Quality

Several different vendors in the working group have been engaged with this document, and plan to deploy. The document is of good quality, and seems ready for publication.

Personnel:

Document Shepherd: Tommy Pauly
Responsible AD: Francesca Palombini