Re: Negotiated noncompliance

Barry Finkel <b19141@achilles.ctd.anl.gov> Wed, 30 August 2000 20:57 UTC

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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:56:08 -0500
From: Barry Finkel <b19141@achilles.ctd.anl.gov>
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Subject: Re: Negotiated noncompliance
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Someone proposed this text:

> 
> An implementation which receives protocol which is not permitted
> by the specification SHOULD (if it is a client) abort the attempt
> to send the message and (if it is a server) reject the command
> with an appropriate status code (rather than assume that the
> non-complaint server will deliver the message). 

I would change the two occurrences of "which" in the first line to 
"that",
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