- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 14:53:59 +1100
- To: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>
- Cc: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 6 Dec 2013, at 7:55 pm, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net> wrote: > > Le Ven 6 décembre 2013 01:04, Mark Nottingham a écrit : > >> If changes are backwards-compatible, there's no need to change the >> protocol identifier on the wire; if they aren't, it's not a minor >> revision. > > If you don't advertise minor you give up on adding features in a minor > version. Only knowing the major version means you have to restrict > yourself to using what was available in the .0 version. No, it must means you don’t indicate the addition of new features to a linear minor version number — which we don’t (and can’t) use anyway in HTTP/1 (because lots of software already rejects HTTP/1.2 outright). Deciding not to link new features into a new version != disallowing new features. -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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