decl-extension clarification?

draft-frystyk-http-extensions-01 looks solid to me.  (Disclaimer:  I
work for the same company as the editor, but I did try to be as
unbiased as possible.)  

Even after rereading the spec multiple times, I was unable to
determine whether decl-extensions from Section 3 are specific to
individual extensions, or whether they are global to the HTTP
extension framework.  "An extension declaration can be extended
through the use of one or more decl-ext parameters"  seems ambiguous,
and in fact I originally thought this meant that each extension could
make up its own decl-ext parameters, so that 

Rolf-Extension:  foo

could legally become 

Opt: "http://www.rolf.com/myextension";  ns=14-; myvalue=foo

If my Rolf Extension (TM) permitted such a thing. In other words,
myvalue is interpreted by the Rolf Extension handler, rather than by
the HTTP Extension Framework.

It is only after looking at the issues list that I see the intent of
the specification is the reverse.  

Otherwise this looks good, I would support this for a recommendation
even if no changes get made to reflect my above concern.  

-Rolf 

-- 
| Rolf Nelson (rolf@w3.org), Project Manager, W3C at MIT
|   "Try to learn something about everything
|             and everything about something."  --Huxley

Received on Friday, 15 January 1999 12:14:46 UTC