Re: Murray Kucherawy's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-18: (with COMMENT)

Hi Murray,

Thanks for the feedback. See responses below.

> On 21 May 2020, at 5:06 pm, Murray Kucherawy via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> I support Benjamin's DISCUSS point about case sensitivity especially with
> respect to how a consumed dictionary should be used.  It's fine if you want to
> say that the rules for key matching are left to the authors of specifications
> of future structured fields, but if that's the case, please do say so.

I believe this was addressed as part of Ben's DISCUSS.

> Should Section 3.1 be explicit that lists are ordered?  It does say "array" but
> some definitions I found for that term don't explicitly say anything about
> order either, just a "collection".

I don't think that's confused anyone to date; if it were unordered, we'd say "set."

> As my colleagues have already done a rather thorough job, all I have left is a
> few nits:
> 
> Nits:
> 
> Section 3.1.2:
> * "... key-values pairs ..." -- s/values/value/

Already covered by your colleagues :)

> Section 3.2:
> * First paragraph, two instances of "items" should be capitalized.
> * "Note that dictionaries ..." -- capitalize "dictionaries"
> * "... Inner List of tokens:" -- capitalize "tokens"
> * "A Dictionary with a mix of singular and list values ..." -- capitalize
> "list", and maybe "Item" instead of "singular"?

See <https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/commit/a1d48ea7132>.

Cheers,

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Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/

Received on Thursday, 21 May 2020 07:12:37 UTC