- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 09:22:35 PST
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: http-caching@pa.dec.com
Can people please address the issue of whether there is any technical
reason to choose one 'vary' proposal over another?
I have asked the proponents of the two proposals (Daniel DuBois
and David Robinson) that I knew about to try to come up with a
concise written description of how they differ. Anyone else
pushing a different proposal (such as the one from the Conneg
subgroup?) ought to do the same.
If you are pushing a proposal of this sort, please don't try to argue
that "it's not my job to compare and contrast it with the competition."
Those of us who don't really understand the issues (myself included)
are going to need some guidance in order to reach consensus, and
any proposal that is not sufficiently described won't get much
support.
In other words, if you don't describe the differences between your
proposal and the others, the competition will describe them and
not in your favor!
Thanks
-Jeff
P.S.: These are the ones that I know about:
http://www.organic.com/public/conneg/mail/0087.html
><URL:http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/%7Edrtr/vary-header-01.ps> - PostScript
><URL:http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/%7Edrtr/vary-header-01.txt> - Plain text
><URL:http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/%7Edrtr/vary-header-01.html> - HTML
http://weeble.lut.ac.uk/lists/http-caching/0114.html
Received on Tuesday, 23 January 1996 17:52:44 UTC