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* Issue #146 - Adds UA String Reduction Minutes Index

* 2021-06-15 UA string minutes
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# [Minutes] UA String Reduction - 2021-06-05

## Attendees:

* Karl Dubost, Mozilla
* Mike Taylor, Google

## Minutes

### Administrivia
mike: Where do we keep the minutes?

karl: On the [repo](https://github.com/whatwg/compat/blob/main/uastring/minutes)

## What should be working on

karl: [@cpeterso](https://github.com/cpeterso) has created a document for Firefox (not public yet), where he's documenting pros and cons of UA freezing/reduction. A lot of these things could be generalized beyond Mozilla. There are things that could be copied and used

mike: Should we start with list of pro/cons? or should we start documenting user agent structure?

karl: Probably we should do both.Understanding the "theory" of UA string. There are a lot of things in common in there, to the point you wonder why it's still there, for example `Mozilla/5.0`. This is worth being documented. We could also document the things you had done in firefox -- a bit of the history and evolution (there is a public google doc somewhere)

mike: I was getting the UA client hints ready for the TAG, and there's a good [explainer in there](https://github.com/WICG/ua-client-hints#use-cases). It has information on what people use. The origin was to motivate what API could be built with regards to this information. It's very similar to the blog post karl wrote [about user agent detection cases](https://www.otsukare.info/2014/03/31/ua-detection-use-cases). We can take the best pieces of this and make sure everything is covered

mike: we can meet again in a couple of weeks. Let's work on this. We can invite people to participate. let's use markdown files to start. We can consolidate later.

karl: **I will start with UA detection use cases**

mike: **I will start with structure of user agent strings.**

## Next Meeting

[July 7, 2021 10:00 JST](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021&month=7&day=7&hour=1&min=0&sec=0&p1=248&p2=43&p3=224)

Let's invite [Chris Peterson](https://github.com/cpeterso) (Mozilla)

## Post-Scriptum

[If— By Rudyard Kipling](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---)
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# UA String Reduction Work Minutes

This is the space for recording publicly the work we are doing around UA string reductions

## 2021
* [June 15, 2021 Minutes](./2021-06-15-minutes.md)

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