Re: Consensus call to include Display Strings in draft-ietf-httpbis-sfbis

PHK, you could make this argument for *any* of the types already in SF -- we don't need Integers when you can just stuff them in binary, after all.


> On 26 May 2023, at 3:47 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> Julian Reschke writes:
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>> At the end of the day what matters is that we have that capability, as
>> opposed to not having at all.
> 
> We /already/ have that capability:  Put the UTF8 safely in a sf-binary field.
> 
> If you want to "label" it, put a parameter on it saying what it is.
> 
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Received on Friday, 26 May 2023 06:15:34 UTC