- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:58:59 -0700
- To: "Eric J. Bowman" <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Eric J. Bowman <eric@bisonsystems.net> wrote: > Adam Barth wrote: >> As far as I can tell, your entire message is beating up on a strawman. >> I haven't proposed any of the things you're shooting down. > > I'm shooting down the notion of standardizing nonconformant syntax, > which isn't a strawman if it's exactly what you proposed: That's not what I proposed. This what I proposed: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> wrote: > The document says: > > [[ > Based on interoperability > testing with existing User Agents, it fully defines a profile of the > features defined in the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) > variant ([RFC2183]) of the header field > ]] > > We should either add enough detail to the document to allow for user > agent implementations or clarify that this document is intended to > apply only to servers. For example, we could change the above > paragraph to the following: > > [[ > Based on interoperability testing with existing User Agents, it > defines a profile > for use by HTTP servers of the > features defined in the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) > variant ([RFC2183]) of the header field > ]] In particular, the text above does not make the document appreciably longer, but it does clarify that user agents are not required to implement the restricted profile contained in this document. Adam
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