Re: Last call on mandatory issues
From: Koen Holtman (koen@win.tue.nl)
Date: Fri, May 22 1998
From: koen@win.tue.nl (Koen Holtman)
Message-Id: <199805221649.SAA00371@wsooti08.win.tue.nl>
To: joshco@microsoft.com (Josh Cohen)
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 18:49:20 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: ietf-http-ext@w3.org
Subject: Re: Last call on mandatory issues
Josh Cohen:
>
[...]
>Please review and comment.
>
>1) Concensus was that the current working in Mandatory is correct. A
>solution to the discussion was proposed to a) take out the current wording
>in Mandatory and leave it "as defined in HTTP" and b) do one of the
>following in order of preference:
>
> - Make a plea to Larry and Jim that the notion of end-to-end
> is clarified in HTTP/1.1 spec as currently stated in Mandatory
> - Make a note in the (now yet written) extension guide lines
> discussing the floating notion of end-to-end.
>
>Action: Henrik to talk to Larry and Jim.
>Status: Ready for last call on mailing list
I would prefer a solution in which you use a new term like
agent-to-agent extension. I think that using 'end' for something
which is in the middle is just too confusing. Don't clarify broken
terminology: just stop using it.
Koen.