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Re: [access-control] syntax is still suboptimal?

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:15:49 +0000 (UTC)
To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@yahoo-inc.com>
Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Arthur Barstow <Art.Barstow@nokia.com>, "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0801290214570.3212@hixie.dreamhostps.com> 

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> 
> 1) You'll have to change it anyway if you want to support extensions. I 
> haven't seen a discussion of this yet.

For what it's worth, I actually consider this a feature, not a bug. Making 
extensions to this should be _hard_, to reduce the temptation for people 
to actually extend it. Ideally, this would never be extended.

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