- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:05:48 +0200
- To: "Brian Smith" <brian@briansmith.org>, "'HTTP Working Group'" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:05:42 +0200, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org> wrote: > The ways in which implementers fail to the protocol don't need to be > formally enumerated in the specification. An informal guide is more than > sufficient. An informal guide will also be easier to update than an IETF > specification when implementers find creative new ways to ignore > standards. A standard is supposed to be the intersection of > implementers' agreement, not the union of their mistakes. But there's agreement among quite a few implementors here. If the specification basically has to be ignored by implementors because it is no longer fit for deployed content it may be a standard, but also useless. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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