Re: [draft-nottingham-http-link-header-06] rev

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> On 24/08/2009, at 12:20 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> > > 
> > > Anne? Ian? IIRC both of your requested the removal of "rev"; how do 
> > > you feel about leaving it in the grammar but strengthening the text 
> > > to clarify that implementations are not required to interpret / use 
> > > it?
> > 
> > My ideal situation would be for rev=""'s semantics and (more 
> > importantly) user agent conformance criteria to be fully defined in 
> > detail, but for the authoring conformance criteria to make _use_ of 
> > rev="" non-conforming.
> 
> I.e., define the semantics of rev in case it's received, but prohibit 
> sending it?

Right, exactly.

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