Re: Straw-man charter for http-bis -- call for errata/clarifications to 2617

"Robert Sayre" <sayrer@gmail.com> Thu, 31 May 2007 21:39 UTC

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Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 09:49:19 -0400
From: "Robert Sayre" <sayrer@gmail.com>
To: "Cyrus Daboo" <cyrus@daboo.name>
Subject: Re: Straw-man charter for http-bis -- call for errata/clarifications to 2617
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On 5/31/07, Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> --On May 31, 2007 1:28:39 AM -0400 Robert Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My feeling is that the current schemes can be updated by documenting
> > the internationalization behavior of popular implementations, but
> > nothing else is worth doing.
>
> I disagree. I think we need to go a lot further. My suggestion would be to
> throw away 2617 as-is,
...
> So I think separate working
> groups would be better because of the different cross-area participation
> requirements.

Fully agree. I should have written "no other work on 2617 is worth doing".


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Robert Sayre

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