Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental-02.txt

On Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025 at 3:19 PM, Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2025, at 18:07, Rahul Gupta wrote:
> 

> > The intermediary that does not understand
> > buffer-delay as a key can still ignore it.
> 

> 

> But if that is the only thing in the field, it then has to ignore the entire thing. At least with ?1 there is something there: the basic functions.

I am not sure if that follows from <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9651#section-3.2-1> and <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9651#section-3.2-3>. It might look odd, but you could have an empty Dictionary. The header itself can imply the basic function.