Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xdash-02.txt
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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xdash-02.txt
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On 1/27/12 11:13 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote: > After discussing this a bit more with Pete Resnick off-line, we found > a place where I missed a major assumption: this draft is only about > parameter names, not numbers. Pete believes that this changes things > hugely, but I am less sure. Regardless, we agreed it needs to be > clarified. That's been implicit in the document, but I agree that we need to make it explicit. > Proposed text to be added after the second paragraph of Section 1: > > Note that this document only discusses parameters with text names; it > does not discuss parameters that are expressed with numbers. The > difference between these two is that text names of parameters (for > example, "hash-type" and "x-hash-type") tend to appear in > administrative and user interfaces much more often than numbers that > identify parameters (for example, 7 or 0xa007). The misuse of > parameters with text names and with numbers are similar; developers > will try to get experimental parameters standardized without changing > the parameter value, developers mis-use unassigned values without > going through the defined registration procedure, and so on. However, > the more likely exposure to administrators and users limits the focus > of this document only to named parameters. 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. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
- [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xdash-0… Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… SM
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Mark Nottingham
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… SM
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Paul Hoffman
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… SM
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… t.petch
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Murray S. Kucherawy
- [apps-discuss] X-Original (was: WGLC on draft-iet… SM
- Re: [apps-discuss] X-Original (was: WGLC on draft… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Zoltan Ordogh
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Zoltan Ordogh
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… t.petch
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Dave CROCKER
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Paul Hoffman
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Dave CROCKER
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Paul Hoffman
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Dave CROCKER
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Dave CROCKER
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Dave CROCKER
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… t.petch
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Dave CROCKER
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… t.petch
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Dave CROCKER
- Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xda… Peter Saint-Andre