Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xdash-02.txt

[Dave CROCKER <[e-mail]>]

On 1/27/2012 10:34 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Proposed text is always appreciated.:)
>
> It's not clear to me what function the third sentence serves; we don't
> talk elsewhere about the misuse of parameters. With some editing, I suggest:
>
> Because textual names of parameters (e.g., "hash-type" and
> "x-hash-type") tend to appear in administrative and user interfaces much
> more often than numbers that identify parameters (e.g., 7 or 0xa007),
> this document discusses only parameters with textual names, not
> parameters that are expressed with numbers.


In fact I'm unclear about what problem the added text solves.  It seems to focus 
on issues that are out of scope for the draft.

At best, an aid to the reader to understand that scope seems sufficient, along 
the lines of Paul's prefatory sentence:

      The specification only cover parameter names, not numbers.

d/


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   Dave Crocker
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