Shared Brotli ID is expired

[svgeesus]

We reference shared brotli which expired Jan 27, 2022 .

Is this expected to become an Informational RFC?

[garretrieger]

I'll check in with the compression team and see what the status is.

[svgeesus]

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Also relevant: Choosing between Informational and Experimental Status

[svgeesus]

So I think the next steps are:

1. Publish another Internet Draft, so that there is a current one
2. Make an Independent Submission of that ID as an Informational RFC.

[garretrieger]

So I was reading over the shared brotli specification and it turns out we only require the functionality defined in one section, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-vandevenne-shared-brotli-format-08#section-3.2 for this use case. That section is pretty short and provides a pretty simple modification to the original specification.

If the shared brotli RFC has not progressed beyond internet draft by the time we want to publish the IFT spec we could consider unblocking ourselves by just including the text of section 3.2 directly in the IFT spec description of the brotli patching format.

[garretrieger]

Going to close this for now as the draft is no longer expired (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-vandevenne-shared-brotli-format-09), we can revisit whether to link this spec or include the relevant text here in the future depending on whether the spec has progressed beyond a draft by then.

[svgeesus]

It expired again:

Expires: March 28, 2023

[garretrieger]

Small update here, the spec has been updated again so it's no longer expired (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vandevenne-shared-brotli-format/). The latest update looks to have removed the TBD stuff and looks to be aiming to go through review now. So for now I think we should continue to depend on it and keep an eye out on it's progress.

[svgeesus]

The Last Call Review is overall positive and asks for a couple of minor points (grammar, number of authors) to be addressed. Last call ends 23 Oct 2024.