Re: Adrian Farrel's Discuss on status-change-http-status-code-308-ps-01: (with DISCUSS)

On 2014-12-30 17:00, Adrian Farrel wrote:
> At the risk of spending more cycles on a single word than is really valuable even to a pedant, and observing that I am not trying to block anything, but am trying to get what is published to be right...
>
> - The document was Experimental
> - We are told that the experiment is done
> - We are told that there are now implementations and deployments
> - We are trying to make this  a Proposed Standard and a PS defines what you build and how you use it.
>
> So, the text in 7238 says "Therefore, initial use of status code 308 will be restricted to cases..."
>
> Note "initial" and "will be."
>
> I asked what "initial means in this context" and I read your response as saying "this is what initial deployments do." That makes the use of the future tense suspect.
>
> But, in a PS I expect to be told what to do not to read reportage of what initial use will comprise. A PS is supposed to tell me what to build and how to deploy it, and I have no way of knowing (from this text) when "initial" ends and when we enter the post-initial world. It sounds to me that this initial period has completed, but maybe it hasn't - how could I know from reading this spec? Who would I ask? It's a small thing, and it is an unclear specification.

I don't know when "initial" ends, either. It requires that all 
components that are relevant will know what 308 is, and that certainly 
is not true today. I can't predict when that will be the case.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 30 December 2014 16:09:11 UTC