Re: WGLC #357: Authentication Exchanges

On 2012-06-21 01:57, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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> On 20/06/2012, at 9:31 PM, Yutaka OIWA wrote:
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>> Dear Mark,
>>
>> 2012/6/20 Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>:
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>>> That's effectively where we are; note that there aren't any RFC2119 conformance requirements placed around this.
>>
>> I prefer to be explicit that use of 403 is just a preference
>> and is not RFC2119 nor other "requirements".
>> "Ought-to" sounds to be louder than RECOMMENDED, as a natural language.
>> # correct me if I have an English problem.
>
> We've consistently used "ought to" to give advice and encourage certain behaviours without making it a conformance requirement (thereby breaking existing implementations). The normative requirements are expressed (and always have been) in RFC2119 language.

Indeed.

Change applied with 
<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/1681>.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 21 June 2012 08:19:40 UTC