WGLC Issue for p4: Optionality of Conditional Request Support

Is p4 optional or not (for servers, clients, etc.)? I think it is, and so it should be explicitly marked as such.

E.g., 

* 2.2.1 Generation - "Origin servers SHOULD send Last-Modified..." -- is this really a SHOULD, or should we just encourage them to? If p4 is optional, I don't think we can impose this as a SHOULD.

* 2.3.1 Generation - "Origin servers SHOULD send ETag..." -- is this really a SHOULD, or should we just encourage them to? If p4 is optional, I don't think we can impose this as a SHOULD.

* 2.4 Rules... - there are many requirements for servers and clients here; I think they need to be downgraded if p4 is indeed optional.

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Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/

Received on Friday, 16 March 2012 08:54:13 UTC