Re: New Version Notification for draft-divilly-status-555-00.txt

:-), very good, I admit I had to google that [1]. Also apparently in Chinese Internet Slang, 555 means 'Crying' [2]. I kind of like the idea of the server being made to 'cry' by some user supplied code. 

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer_IC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer_IC>
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Internet_slang#Numbers,_representing_Chinese_terms_(%E6%95%B0%E5%AD%97%E8%A1%A8%E7%A4%BA%E6%B1%89%E5%AD%97_sh%C3%B9z%C3%AC_bi%C7%8Eosh%C3%AC_h%C3%A0nz%C3%AC) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Internet_slang#Numbers,_representing_Chinese_terms_(%E6%95%B0%E5%AD%97%E8%A1%A8%E7%A4%BA%E6%B1%89%E5%AD%97_sh%C3%B9z%C3%AC_bi%C7%8Eosh%C3%AC_h%C3%A0nz%C3%AC)>

> On 25 Mar 2020, at 09:13, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> In message <84C127AC-BA21-4CD8-9F79-8920ADE5BA4C@ORACLE.COM>, Colm Divilly writes:
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>> We believe assigning a new HTTP status code (we chose 555 just because it is
>> memorable)
> 
> IMO status code 555 should only be used for something which happens periodically :-)
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