Re: [Slim] Ticket #35 Have an attribute to abbreviate the bidirectionally-symmetric case

Randall Gellens <rg+ietf@randy.pensive.org> Fri, 09 June 2017 21:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Slim] Ticket #35 Have an attribute to abbreviate the bidirectionally-symmetric case
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At 5:19 PM +0000 6/8/17, Natasha Rooney wrote:

>  Related 
> draft: <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-slim-negotiating-human-language/?include_text=1>https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-slim-negotiating-human-language/
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  Please review the below ticket and respond on-list to comments. We 
> are working through our final tickets before progressing the draft.
> 
> <https://trac.ietf.org/trac/slim/ticket/35>https://trac.ietf.org/trac/slim/ticket/35
>

I think it's a bit late in the process for a change as large as this, 
because I am afraid we might have unanticipated consequences if we 
add a third attribute whose use precludes the other two.

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