Re: 255 character limit in reg-name from Roy T.Fielding on 2004-07-16 (uri@w3.org from July 2004)

From: Roy T.Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:51:01 -0700
To: "Dave McAlpin" <Dave.McAlpin@epok.net>
Cc: <uri@w3.org>
Message-Id: <9C1E170E-D77A-11D8-A55C-000393753936@gbiv.com>

On Friday, July 16, 2004, at 12:29  AM, Dave McAlpin wrote:
> It's a good point about buffer overflows, but with the current 
> language about registered names, the 255 character limit seems really 
> arbitrary. Could we remove the hard restriction in the BNF and handle 
> it as a normative SHOULD, justified with your text below?

Okay, done.

....Roy

Received on Friday, 16 July 2004 18:50:26 UTC