Re: Genart last call review of draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-18

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Thu, 07 May 2020 00:17 UTC

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> On 6 May 2020, at 5:00 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> 
>> Example-ScaledInt: 4503;suffix=M
> 
> Would that work without an explanation ?

Perhaps in full context:

~~~
For example:

  Example-ScaledInt: 4503; suffix=M

Could be used to indicate a scaled value; in this case, 4,503,000,000, if the `M` suffix parameter is specified to denote multiplying the integer by 1,000,000.
~~~

Thoughts?

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