RE: First reactions to mandatory draft
From: Paul Leach (paulle@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue, Jan 20 1998
Message-ID: <5CEA8663F24DD111A96100805FFE658720398C@red-msg-51.dns.microsoft.com>
From: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
To: "'Scott Lawrence'" <lawrence@agranat.com>
Cc: ietf-http-ext@w3.org
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 13:54:08 -0800
Subject: RE: First reactions to mandatory draft
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> From: Scott Lawrence[SMTP:lawrence@agranat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 12:43 PM
> To: Paul Leach
> Cc: ietf-http-ext@w3.org
> Subject: Re: First reactions to mandatory draft
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> SL> I think that having different URLs to identify the extentions is
> SL> sufficient; if the extentions are so incompatible that they cannot
> SL> be used in the same header syntax unambiguously, then they shouldn't
> SL> be implemented in the same place anyway.
>
> >>>>> "PL" == Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com> writes:
>
> PL> What? First, if two groups invented the extension independently,
> PL> there will almost certainly be _no_ relation between them. Second,
> PL> if there's just a URL, how can you tell which headers go with that
> PL> URL?
>
> If I don't understand the extention it doesn't matter whether or not
> I know what headers go with it - I return an error anyway.
>
What if you understand both of them?
Paul