Re: XMLP WG Issue 12

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>
To: "christopher ferris" <chris.ferris@east.sun.com>
Cc: "Hugo Haas" <hugo@w3.org>; <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: XMLP WG Issue 12


> The OSI stack is a tool to help understand the relationships between
> different technologies and their purposes; it is not a protocol
> design oracle.

Strongly agree!  

> I would observe that it's quite unusual for a content format to poke
> its head up into the protocol. In the HTTP, when you submit a form
> and you forget to include your street address, is the response code
> 500? 
> 
> HTTP status codes are a simplistic way of making the client software
> aware of the state of the server regarding the response. They are
> (mis-)used for a variety of things on the Web today. 

Even more strongly agree!

Received on Thursday, 31 May 2001 22:21:53 UTC