- From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 08:29:19 +0100
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
jg@zorch.w3.org writes: | 2) are the sections actually separable. The current document | has many "see section xx.xx" cross references; I'm not sure | such a spit is realistic, though I haven't examined it carefully. | My gut reaction it is that it is not... "See [document y]" perhaps ? From the progress I've made so far (sorry - a week late already, sigh), this spl?it certainly seems to be more practical than the implementation/specification one. Not surprising when you consider its origins ? One possible advantage of splitting up would be that you could actually revise (obsolete? supercede?) individual bits without having to re-do the whole damn thing whenever you want to change part of it. If you really are only revising just one aspect (e.g. cache-control features), you can have an effort which is focused on the problem, as opposed to a free-for-all on what features/changes people would like to see in the protocol ? I suppose this approach has been taken with DNS, SMTP and PPP, to name but three. Successfully ? Hmm... Martin
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