- From: Robert Waldstein <wald@library.ho.lucent.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:50:35 -0500
- To: www-zig@w3.org
> No Init is not dead yet. Not for me at least.
> I do not agree with the idea that the Init contains only useless
> information.
I don't think anyone is saying init contains (only) useless information,
or that it will go away. The argument is that for some, often less robust,
applications, init is not needed; and may be a hinderance.
So the argument is for such applications/services it would be desireable
for init to be optional.
To me this strikes me as a, in many ways, minor change:
- servers that require init just have to do something when they get a
different PDU before init. Gee - guess we all do something already -)
crashing is probably unacceptable at the server end, but abrupt
termination of the connection is certainly something the client
might expect.
- for the protocol this also strikes me as minor, but I admit I have
always ignored the state tables... And I don't mind statements like:
if init is obmitted all the things the client/server learn
via init are undefined and all behavior is acceptable...
bob
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Received on Monday, 15 January 2001 09:50:55 UTC