Re: [ietf-822] What about doing more? (was: Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-crocker-inreply-react-01.txt)

Ricardo Signes <rjbs@semiotic.systems> Mon, 12 October 2020 03:49 UTC

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Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 23:49:33 -0400
From: Ricardo Signes <rjbs@semiotic.systems>
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Subject: Re: [ietf-822] What about doing more? (was: Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-crocker-inreply-react-01.txt)
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On Sun, Oct 11, 2020, at 10:44 PM, John Levine wrote:
> In article <106aecda-a406-4fc5-8d3d-66c3c364edaa@www.fastmail.com> you write:
> >The problem here is that some implementors like to validate data at layers were its validity is (probably) irrelevant to its intended use.
> 
> "Don't do that".

Right.  And my email said:
> Maybe this warrants a note for implementors, and maybe not, but it seemed worth raising the point.

So:  "Is it worth including «Don't do that.» in this spec?"

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020, at 10:44 PM, John Levine wrote:
> If they haven't already figured out that it's a fool's errand to
> validate Unicode beyond broad rules like don't allow surrogates in
> UTF-8, they're not going to figure it out for this tiny hack.

I believe this says "It is not worth including that."

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rjbs