Re: [sieve] Working Group Last Call: draft-ietf-sieve... autoreply, notify-presence, vacation-seconds

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> >> I think it would be worth putting a note in somewhere that an
> >> implementation may wish to cache the results of a call to
> >> notify_method_capability so that if it is used in a series of if/else
> >> tests, it only needs to be retrieved once.
> >
> > Now that you bring this up, I'm tempted to go even further, and say that any
> > result should be consistent throughout the script. If statuses change and
> > notify_method_capability returns inconsistent results at different times in
> > the same script, I could see that causing some unpleasant results.

> I like Ned's suggestion, and I will add that.  My working copy now has
> this as the third paragraph, just before the list:

>    If a particular presence item is tested multiple times within the
>    same script execution context, implementations MUST present the same
>    value each time (for example, by caching the value on first use).
>    This provides consistency within a single execution.

Sounds good to me.

				Ned