Re: [http-state] Updated draft

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Mon, 17 August 2009 20:25 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
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Subject: Re: [http-state] Updated draft
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> Anne, I do understand that. I was merely replying to the claim that at some
> point every implementation needs to "decide how to sort". That's simply not
> true; an implementation could decide not to care, and let some default
> apply.

Which, itself, would be a decision (and likely a poor decision).

Adam