- From: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@xythos.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:52:38 -0700
- To: "'Julian Reschke'" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "'Webdav WG'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
> If a server that complies to RFC2518 doesn't comply to RFC2518bis, then > we've broken the IETF publication process, haven't we? I don't think that's necessarily true. I checked with my local IAB member, and we don't think it's forbidden to upgrade a standard from Proposed Standard to Draft Standard, even if in the process the standard becomes somewhat more stringent in what constitutes compliance from implementations. (He says particularly if the requirement is a SHOULD now.) It's a difficult judgement call, and one must weigh the interoperability concerns of both making and not making the change. But in principle, it's not forbidden. Our ADs will certainly weigh in on this when we've hashed it out more amongst ourselves, but in the meantime we shouldn't have to restrict ourselves rigidly in this matter. Lisa
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