- From: Robert Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:26:59 -0400
- To: "Paul Leach" <paulle@windows.microsoft.com>
- Cc: "HTTP Working Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 10/20/06, Paul Leach <paulle@windows.microsoft.com> wrote: > > it is a general principle > of protocol design for any protocol that has options, in order to > guarantee that conforming implementations can always be configured to > interoperate. (This was in reaction to the ISO protocol mess with > non-interoperable "profiles" of the 1980's.) Oh, I agree that there's certainly a judgement call for Working Groups to make on this sort of thing. But since the rules concern implementations rather than deployments, MTI doesn't prevent the actual threat to HTTP interoperability: centralized authentication services. It's a backwards rule intended for companies shipping routers and floppy discs. Web applications can route around it. -- Robert Sayre
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