On Jan 17, 2013 3:05 PM, "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > > On 2013-01-17 11:17, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >> It does, however, improve the lot for users of other user agents >> that either do not send qvalues or allow the user to specify the >> value by hand, either of which can result in same-valued tags. > > Well, it's doing that at the cost of making recipients non-compliant that implement RFC 2068/2616. So this is a change that would need to be listed in the Changes section. So what? Lots of implementations of lots of Internet protocols are non-compliant with the relevant specs. It's not like there's an IETF Police. Also, this squeamishness about making improvements like this means we're stuck with mistakes forever, even when fixing them breaks nothing. Nico --
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