- From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:32:14 -0700
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: Ken Murchison <murch@andrew.cmu.edu>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Roy Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>, "Julian F. Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
On 29 March 2013 15:11, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: >> The SHOULD is qualified sufficiently that I believe that a MUST is >> more appropriate. > > The requirement is of the form "SHOULD... unless...", with the clause: > >> , unless the variance cannot be crossed or the origin server has been deliberately configured to prevent cache transparency. > > so I think this one is OK. I'm not familiar with the "SHOULD...unless" construct. "MUST...unless" is better typically, unless there are other, unspecified reasons that this directive can be ignored.
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