Re: Extensibility methods in APPCORE protocol

At 22.55 +0100 99-03-17, Graham Klyne wrote:
> At 13:17 17/03/99 +0100, Jacob Palme wrote:
> >At the APPCORE meeting in Minneapolis, it was said that APPCORE should
> >not contain any building block which is not used in two existing
> >IETF standard.
>
> I don't think extensibility is excluded by this rule -- both HTTP and SMTP
> have extension mechanisms defined.

Yes, but none of them has a facility for marking extensions
as critical or non-critical, and this is something I would
very much like to have in APPLCORE.
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Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme

Received on Monday, 22 March 1999 15:36:54 UTC