> From: Mark C Nottingham <mnot@akamai.com>
> ...
> from the specification. i.e., it would be good to test for optimal
> operation, etc., but to declare that common practice supercedes an explicit
> requirement in the specification is IMHO folly.
Some people figure that going out of business is a greater folly.
Others giggle about the OSI style of protocol development.
In other words, the IETF slogans "rough consensus and running code"
and "be conservative in what you send and generous in what you accept"
are supposed to supersede all explicit requirements.
....
Is anything happening with the redirection proxy hazards document
or the NECP document? The silence about them is deafening.
Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com
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