Re: p6: maximum delta-seconds of 2147483648

* Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>1.2.1.  Delta Seconds
>
>   The delta-seconds rule specifies a non-negative integer, representing
>   time in seconds.
>
>     delta-seconds  = 1*DIGIT
>
>   A recipient parsing a delta-seconds value and converting it to binary
>   form ought to use an arithmetic type of at least 31 bits of non-
>   negative integer range.  If a cache receives a delta-seconds value
>   greater than the greatest integer it can represent, or if any of its
>   subsequent calculations overflows, the cache MUST consider the value
>   to be either 2147483648 (2^31) or the greatest positive integer it can
>   conveniently represent.
>
>      Note: The value 2147483648 is here for historical reasons,
>      effectively represents infinity (over 68 years), and does not need
>      to be stored in binary form; an implementation could produce it as
>      a canned string if any overflow occurs, even if the calculations
>      are performed with an arithmetic type incapable of directly
>      representing that number.  What matters here is that an overflow
>      be detected and not treated as a negative value in later
>      calculations.
>
>Cool?

I http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013JanMar/1270.html
raised this issue back in March and the text above is fine with me.
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