Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpbis-rand-access-live-03: (with COMMENT)

[Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>]

Eric Rescorla has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-httpbis-rand-access-live-03: No Objection

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COMMENT:
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Rich version of this review at:
https://mozphab-ietf.devsvcdev.mozaws.net/D3189


I can't tell whether this document is intended to have normative
content or not. I note that you cite RFC 2119 not RFC 8174, and have
some lower-case should-type language....

COMMENTS
S 5.
>      seek request or content-range response.  Also, some implementations
>      (e.g.  JavaScript-based clients and servers) are not able to
>      represent all values beyond 2^^53.  So similarly, if there's no
>      expectation that a representation will ever exceed 2^^53 bytes,
>      values smaller than this limit should be used for the last-byte-pos
>      in byte-range requests.

What happens if you are wrong about this?