What is meta? ×  Lots of people use the tag for things related
to HTTP implementation, using HTTP, as well as the
specification.  Would it be OK to start recommending people use
when they mean the latter? I'd like to start supporting folks
who have questions specifically about the specification. (I
chair the HTTPbis WG in the IETF.)  share|improve this question
closed as off-topic by Sompuperoo, Braiam, Monica Cellio, gnat,
Martijn Pieters Dec 22 at 20:51    1 Answer 1  up vote 1 down
vote accepted  The problem isn't with the tag. The problem is
that there are a number of questions that only tangentially
relate to http are tagged with HTTP.  We shouldn't use a new tag
to solve a problem that can be solved with using the current tag
appropriately.  I took just the front page of the newest http
questions, and here's what I found:  Out of 50 questions:    •
40 had nothing to do with the HTTP Protocol itself. Here's just
one such example   • 5 were tangentially related to the HTTP
protocol, but the tag could be