Re: [Extra] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-extra-imap4rev2-26: (with COMMENT)

Alissa Cooper <alissa@cooperw.in> Thu, 04 February 2021 17:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Extra] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-extra-imap4rev2-26: (with COMMENT)
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> On Feb 4, 2021, at 10:32 AM, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> wrote:
> 
>>> That said, there are two things:
>>> 
>>> 1. As Alexey has pointed out with other comments, changing these often
>>> involves carefully checking literal lengths, RFC822-SIZE values, and
>>> other such, and has a high potential to introduce errors.
>>> 
>>> 2. I have some thought toward keeping Mark's voice in here, and that
>>> mostly shows up in the examples.  Part of me would rather not scrub it
>>> out.
>> 
>> The point of raising it in the first place was about perpetuating the biases of the earlier documents/authors.
>> The base RFCs will remain in the archive for people to read.
> 
> Yes, true, and that takes care of point 2.  You're right.
> 
> Do you think it's worth the risk of introducing errors (point 1)?

I’m not sure I understand it well enough. If you substitute values that are the same length in characters as the old values, is this still a problem? I.e., if you padded examples with numbers ("example123456”) or something along those lines, does that help?

Thanks,
Alissa

> 
> Barry