Call for Adoption: SEARCH method

Looking again over the spec, I see that it specifically states in section 2 the response is NOT cacheable:


 The response to a SEARCH request is not cacheable.  It ought to be
   noted, however, that because SEARCH requests are safe and idempotent,
   responses to a SEARCH MUST NOT invalidate previously cached responses
   to other requests directed at the same effective request URI.

Right after that, the draft states it supports conditional SEARCH, IF-Match etc.

Am I correct that this means that a server can return an ETAG with a response, and the client can technically cache that along with the ETAG and use the ETAG in a subsequent conditional SEARCH?

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