Re: new issue: remove redundant MUST obey xrefs

Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> ... 
> Those are just two examples of what can only be described as a
> spaghetti style of content-free cross-references within the spec
> that make it very hard to read.  They should be removed in general
> at the editors' discretion.
> 
> ....Roy

Totally agreed. I would even call them harmful, not only because they 
take up valuable space, but also because an attentive reader might 
wonder why the same statements aren't made for other methods as well.

That being said, there are people who seem to like repeating stuff all 
over the place, so it seems to be a good thing nevertheless to link 
these kinds of changes to an issue entry that explains the reason behind 
that change.

(<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/draft-lafon-rfc2616bis-latest.html#rfc.issue.duplicated-text-wrt-msg-xmission-reqs> 
in the latest edit)

Best regards, Julian

Received on Saturday, 29 September 2007 11:25:31 UTC