CGI specification is now an RFC!

[pne]

Wow, a fair surprised... the only ones I knew of were the original spec at uiuc.edu and a draft; apparently, there's now an informational RFC. Here's part of a diff from Perl's FAQ that I saw today:

-The original CGI specification is at: http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/
-
-Current best-practice RFC draft at: http://CGI-Spec.Golux.Com/
+The CGI specification is outlined in an informational RFC:
+http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3875

Comments

[darth-spacey.livejournal.com]

I had *no* idea that CGI wasn't RFCed. Wow. Some of the most obscure and weird stuff has sometimes multiple RFCs, yet one of the most basic and standard parts of the WWW only got homologated recently. That blows my mind.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

There've been draft(s) around for years. I'm not sure I'd noticed an RFC had been issued though.