ETags vs Variants, was: Revising RFC2616 - what's happening

Henrik Nordstrom schrieb:
> Agreed.
> 
> From experience I think it's also worthwhile to further stress the
> importance of ETag uniqueness among variants of a URI. Very few
> implementations get this part correct. In fact most major web servers
> have issues here...
> 
> Some even strongly believe that entities with different Content-Encoding
> is the same entity, arguing that since most encoding (at least the
> standardized ones) can be converted to the same identity encoding so
> they are in fact the same entity and should have the same strong ETag.
> 
> Regards
> Henrik

I violently agree.

Could you write up a short description of the problem, for inclusion in 
the issues list Mark N. is working on?

Best regards, Julian