Re: Via MUST discussion

understood.  Sorry I missed that in my original post.

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On ons, 2007-11-14 at 14:29 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
>   
>> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>>     
>>> On ons, 2007-11-14 at 11:25 +1100, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> OTOH, making this requirement a SHOULD is probably closer to  
>>>> reflecting current practice, especially if we were to have some  
>>>> explanatory text about it.
>>>>         
>>> +1
>>>
>>> There is no reason to have MUST level requirements without any
>>> noticeable impact on the operations of the protocol. And Via is
>>> certainly in that category.
>>>       
>> I would argue we should open a new issue for this one, i5 
>> (<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/issues/#i5>) was about 
>> the inconsistency between SHOULD (14.38) and MUST (14.45). We fixed that 
>> IMHO correctly (using consistently the stronger requirement).
>>
>> So if we want to relax the MUST level requirement, that should be 
>> treated separately...
>>     
>
> Yes, it's two separate issues, even if the solution is mutually
> exclusive in terms of text change relateive to 2616.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>   

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