Re: [Slim] Allowing multiple values in an answer

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

I realized an additional change was needed, to the discussion of the 
offer/answer model.  Attached is a revised diff.

At 11:57 AM -0800 1/11/18, Randall Gellens wrote:

>  The second of the two remaining open questions is if we should 
> allow an answer to contain multiple values.  I do not think this is 
> the intent of the text that has been in the draft for some time; 
> regardless, we could make such a change, but I question if we can 
> do so now, when we've essentially passed IESG review.
>
>  I edited a version of the draft that contains all remaining 
> clarifying editorial changes to also make this technical change and 
> attached is a diff showing what it would look like.  However, I 
> think we should not make the change since it could introduce 
> additional complexities or problems that we aren't considering.  I 
> think we could make such a change in a future extension or 
> revision.  I don't think we'd have an interoperability problem 
> since endpoints conformant with the more restrictive version will 
> not generate such answers, and would regard regard receiving such 
> answers as an error, but not one that would fail a call.
>
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