[Jakarta-httpclient Wiki] Update of "NewProjectCharter" by OlegKalnichevski

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+ Charter approved. Text moved to SVN
- = Charter =
- The following charter for '''Jakarta Http Components''' project is pending approval of the Jakarta Project Management Committee (PMC).
  
- == Rationale ==
- The original {{{ Jakarta Commons HttpClient API }}} has a number limitations that cannot be resolved without a significant architectural redesign. Moreover, {{{ Jakarta Commons HttpClient }}} has been increasingly used in applications and environments it has not been specifically designed for. The existing monolithic design no longer adequately reflects the use patterns of {{{ HttpClient }}}. {{{ HttpClient }}} needs to be refactored into a toolset of simple, low level HTTP components suitable for building more specialized HTTP services.
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- == Project scope ==
-  * {{{ Jakarta Http Components }}} develops a toolset of low level components focused exclusively at the transport aspects of HTTP protocol.
-  * {{{ Jakarta Http Components }}} will provide '''ONLY''' a toolset of low level generic transport APIs. In particular, server side application layer APIs '''WILL NOT''' be developed
-  * {{{ Jakarta Http Components }}} '''MUST''' be content agnostic. The project '''DOES NOT''' develop components intended to produce or consume content of HTTP messages.
-  * {{{ Jakarta Http Components }}} continues the development of {{{ Jakarta HttpClient }}} (formerly {{{ Jakarta Commons HttpClient }}}) based on the toolset of HTTP components.  This tool focuses on the client side of HTTP.
-  * {{{ Jakarta Http Components }}} is additional charged with the maintenance of the existing {{{ Jakarta Commons HttpClient }}} component.
-  * {{{ Jakarta Http Components }}} '''MAY''' develop application layer components (such as an HTTP connector, a lightweight server component, proxy components) as reference material to demonstrate the capabilities of the toolset. The said artifacts ARE NOT meant for production use and are not released as official Apache Jakarta products.
-  * {{{ Jakarta Http Components }}} collaborates with other projects to develop specialized HTTP services for production use based on the toolset of HTTP components.
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- == Targeted specifications and standards ==
-  * {{{ RFC1945 }}} Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
-  * {{{ RFC2616 }}} Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
-  * {{{ RFC2617 }}} HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication
-  * {{{ RFC2109 }}} HTTP State Management Mechanism -- Cookies
-  * {{{ RFC2965 }}} HTTP State Management Mechanism -- Cookie2
-  * [http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.html A standard for robot exclusion] - robots.txt parser ([http://www.osjava.org/norbert/index.html contribution] requiring Software Grant)
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- == Initial set of committers ==
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- '''Project Lead'''
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-   Michael Becke
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- '''Project Committers'''
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-   Adrian Sutton
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-   Ortwin Glueck
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-   Oleg Kalnichevski
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-   Henri Yandell
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