RE: Allow is not in 13.5.2

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> But yes, poor reading of the RFC may cause problems if one assumes
> 13.5.2 is complete and alone authoritative on when headers may be
> modified.

Fairly commonly paired with poor writing ... and also with large complex
documents. The goal of inter-operative implementations is best served by
clarification or removal of ambiguity when it is detected. This document
if for engineers who find life challenging enough w/o ambiguity, not
lawyers who love ambiguity.

Dave Morris

Received on Friday, 22 December 2006 14:33:31 UTC