Re: ABNF related feedback to: Re: AD review of draft-ietf-httpbis-alt-svc-10

On 2016-01-11 05:48, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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>> On 11 Jan 2016, at 2:40 am, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
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>> On 2015-12-31 18:54, Mike Bishop wrote:
>>> "persist" could as easily be a toggle; either present or not, no value.  However, the existing syntax doesn't permit that, so we defined it to be =1.  In this situation, I don't see a problem with hard-coding the value into the syntax.
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>>> Fundamentally, the question is, "If I see persist=2, what should I do with it?"  If I treat it as an unrecognized value, then it's equivalent to not being present, which may or may not be what the sender wanted.  That means whoever is defining persist=2 would probably have done better to define morerefinedpersist=1-4, and leave persist intact for legacy clients to understand.
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>>> If you're going to have to define a new token for other values to be useful anyway, let's formalize that and hard-code that there's only one acceptable value for this one.
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>> Sounds right to me.
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>> Any objections to changing this to simply "1"?
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> That seems reasonable...

Ack.

>> Or do we want to change it to %s"t" (for "true")?
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> That's a breaking syntactic change at a very late stage; what benefit does it have?

The intent was to have a more readable value. Are there any 
implementations out there this would break?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 11 January 2016 07:06:16 UTC