Editorial Issue: Unknown/Undefined Settings IDs

James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Fri, 26 April 2013 20:49 UTC

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We currently define Settings as being extensible but we do not define,
as far as I can tell, what should happen if a Settings ID is not known
or recognized by an endpoint.

We could define it as MUST IGNORE but that could be dangerous
depending on what the new setting is being used for.