Re: Boolean param notation, Re: Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-18: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

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In message <f606b7a2-be34-9d42-cb78-0ff46bb671a0@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes:
>On 19.05.2020 07:13, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> ...
>>> What's the motivation for "MUST omit values of boolean true" (in
>>> parameters and dictionaries)?  It seems to make the output rules more
>>> complicated without a significant gain in encoding size.
>>
>> It allows some existing HTTP headers to be treated as structured for the=
> purposes of serialisation.
>> ...
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>Well, the introduction states that redefining existing fields is a
>non-goal...

But it does not forbid people from realizing that a particular
existing header can be parsed and serialized using SF infrastruture.

But we do not redefine those headers to say that it is so.

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