- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 96 16:11:41 PST
- To: hardie@nasa.gov
- Cc: http-caching@pa.dec.com
Well, I'm getting basically conflicting reasons for why I should
not include Warning 12, "Caching may violate law". Ted Hardie
says that we shouldn't do a liability-warning unless we do it
right. Roy says we shouldn't do it because people will use it.
I don't buy Roy's argument, but I don't have time to debate it.
However, Ted's response convinces me that at this point it is
not worth worrying about the legal implications. So I'm removing
Warning #12 for now.
After thinking about Ted's suggestion for a "Customizable Warning",
I decided to include this:
98 Customizable warning
The warning text may include arbitrary information to
be presented to a human user, or logged. A system
receiving this warning SHOULD NOT store the
associated response in a cache.
in *addition* to this:
99 Miscellaneous warning
The warning text may include arbitrary information to
be presented to a human user, or logged. A system
receiving this warning MUST NOT take any automated
action.
The difference between these two warnings is that #99 absolutely does
not affect the behavior of caches, and #98 does. (Maybe that SHOULD
ought to be a MUST?)
-Jeff
Received on Thursday, 4 April 1996 00:24:17 UTC