Re: RFC 7168 on The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA)

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Thu, 03 April 2014 00:02 UTC

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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 20:01:52 -0400
From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
To: Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com>, Clint Chaplin <clint.chaplin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RFC 7168 on The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA)
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--On Wednesday, April 02, 2014 19:42 -0400 Ted Lemon
<ted.lemon@nominum.com> wrote:

> On Apr 2, 2014, at 6:54 PM, Clint Chaplin
> <clint.chaplin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Will there be an option for not-tea?
> 
> No.   You can't have tea and not-tea.

At least until you answer the question "when is tea not tea" in
a satisfactory way.  For example, the stuff that comes
identified as tea but arrives in bags in many bad restaurants
(and others that should know better), is pretty clearly not tea
but it is less clear whether it is not-tea or not.