- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:37:21 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, frystyk@w3.org, masinter@parc.xerox.com, paulle@microsoft.com, mogul@pa.dec.com, lawrence@agranat.com, fielding@ics.uci.edu, dmk@research.bell-labs.com
Jim Gettys: > [...] >* h6a MISTAKES [...] >b) The consensus was the invalidation was in fact correct, has been a >requirement for a long time given language existing even in 1945, and >it would be dangerous to remove it. At least, that is what I remember >while in the basement with a scared 3 year old near by over the static >in the phone. Needless to say I disagree with the consensus of the phone conference. I can't find any language about this matter in 1945 or 2068, so please point me to it. Also, the requirement has no teeth anyway because a system is always free to act as a tunnel, not as a cache, for certain requests. I could change my mind about this issue if someone would provide some evidence that current practice actually conforms to the proposed new requirment. As far as I know currently deployed systems do not, and the new requirement would only shorten the useful lifetime of the protocol. Koen.
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