- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:18:01 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
About the CONTENT-ENCODING issue which is now in last call: I do not think the draft should be changes in the proposed way. The issue is not whether the `original authors of 1.0' intended, but forgot to, add q parameters to content encoding. I don't think so, but we do not need to discuss that. The issue is whether q parameters can be added now without breaking too many things. Roy's message http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/hypermail/1997q3/0299.html seems to indicate that adding q parameters might well lead to breakage. Without some degree of evidence that this breakage *won't* occur, I think that going through with the CONTENT-ENCODING fix is ill-advised. The evidence does not have to be exhaustive, but it has to be better than what I have seen so far. I argue against making this change in parsing rules, because we do not understand its possible effects well enough. Koen.
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