Re: [http-state] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6265 (3663)

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Mon, 08 July 2013 21:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-state] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6265 (3663)
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> Certainly the original issue as I phrased it is incorrect, so in that sense it's Rejected.
> However, there is a functionality issue as I noted that results in unexpected behavior
> because two RFCs have differing definitions of equivalent.
> The current RFCs do match the implementations, so it's really a design flaw in the RFCs
> not any bug in the implementations or doc per se.
> I think the issue of unexpected behavior isn't an errata per se, it's a protocol "flaw" (in
> some sense) that should be noted somehow.
> A HFDU errata would be one way to do that.  There may be other ways.

If you have a proposal for a change to your errata report, I can edit
it and change it, and then mark it HFDU.  Alternatively, I can just
mark this "Rejected" and let you sort out an alternative.

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