- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:45:57 -0700
- To: Benjamin Carlyle <benjamincarlyle@soundadvice.id.au>
- Cc: IETF HTTP WG <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Received on Thursday, 1 August 2013 04:46:17 UTC
On Apr 30, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Benjamin Carlyle wrote: > In the vein of clarifying what is meant by "process" I would also suggest dropping the "be able to" wording wherever it appears in MUST statements. Compliance can tested for what a particular actor does or does not do. It can't be tested for what the actor is capable of doing. > I looked and found that "be able to" is the correct wording. It is possible to test for capabilities -- it is just harder to know whether the failure is due to a lack of capability or an explicit decision not to. In these cases, we want to allow the implementation to decide not to parse at all. ....Roy
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