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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Largest Reference too big (#1404)

afrind <notifications@github.com> Fri, 01 June 2018 20:13 UTC

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If tolerance of errors like this is a downward spiral, I guess I don't understand MAY instead of MUST.  Then there will be some implementations that don't treat it as an error (perhaps many, because tracking this is annoying), and the buggy encoder can just say "well it works with so-and-so".

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