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Re: Last Call: <draft-nottingham-safe-hint-05.txt> (The "safe" HTTP Preference) to Proposed Standard

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 16 November 2014 21:10 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-nottingham-safe-hint-05.txt> (The "safe" HTTP Preference) to Proposed Standard
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>> Here's a concrete suggestion: the Bing search engine and IE browser
>> support this safe flag right now.  Could you talk to the people
>> responsible for them and ask whether they considered more fine grained
>> schemes such as PICS, and why they implemented a single bit instead?
>
>Or, I can go to their website and see that their “bit" implements ternary logic:

Bing implements the exact proposal in this I-D.  (The I-D says so.)

If you believe otherwise, please provide references.

R's,
John

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