Re: Negotiated noncompliance

[Philip Hazel <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Chris Newman wrote:

> Here's an attempt to take the best of both and address concerns expressed:

A couple of typos:

> interoperability failures, and with the realization that where-as thousands 
                                                           ^^^^^^^^
                                                           whereas
                                       (at least, on this side of the pond)

> particular connection.  Implmentations which choose to do this SHOULD 
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I am broadly in favour of some wording of this kind. There is a lot of 
"background culture" that has to be learned by implementors, not all of 
whom have been around for very long, and this will help them pick some 
of it up.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
[e-mail]      Cambridge, England. Phone: [phone].