Re: [hybi] I-D Action:draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-01.txt

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 02 September 2010 12:04 UTC

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On 02.09.2010 13:47, James Graham wrote:
> On 09/02/2010 12:45 AM, Internet-Drafts@ietf.org wrote:
>
>> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-01.txt
>>
>
> A few initial comments:
>
> The framing sections seem to have a lot of SHOULDs. This is worrying as
> SHOULD-level conditions can't really be tested (it is not an error to
> violate them) and can be a source of interoperability problems. I would
 > ...

Nothing stops you from testing them; you just need to either state that 
you reported SHOULD failures as violations, or need to report different 
compliance levels.

Best regards, Julian