Summary

  • The IESG approved MASQUE's new charter on 22 October, turning a proposed closeout into the group's current instructions.
  • Four adopted documents remain on the workbench; two more are optional, and later HTTP extensions outside the approved scope go to HTTPBIS.

Some committees expand their remit until the furniture needs its own postcode. MASQUE has acquired an exit sign. The IETF's charter history records IESG approval on 22 October and the move to Approved. The group's page now points to charter 04. MASQUE is still active, with an approved instruction to finish remaining work and close.

Charter 04 names four adopted documents: ECN and DSCP support for CONNECT-UDP; compression and derivation of HTTP Datagram fields; an optimization for proxying QUIC over CONNECT-UDP; and DNS plus PREF64 configuration carried by HTTP Capsules. It may also take on an informational architecture document and a standards-track qlog events document. The text bars any other adoption under this charter.

Those four jobs appeared in the earlier proposal. Approval is the new event: the to-do list now defines what this working group can finish under an operative mandate. Core CONNECT-UDP and CONNECT-IP functionality is already delivered, according to the charter. The remaining documents have to travel their own publication paths.

There is an address for the next bright idea. HTTP extensions outside the approved MASQUE scope will be referred to HTTPBIS. That sentence moves a future author's argument from “could MASQUE take this?” to “which group owns this extension?” The difference is a real gate in standards work. A working group can stop accumulating errands, and the people who need a new HTTP feature know where to knock.