Re: [Webpush] Niceness or urgency of messages #28

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Sat, 20 February 2016 06:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Webpush] Niceness or urgency of messages #28
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Ordering is easy: define the order.

On 19 February 2016 at 22:00, Brian Raymor <Brian.Raymor@microsoft.com> wrote:
> but this provoked similar concerns about the need for "explicit statement[s] about the ordering of these values" and:
>
>     "This constant use of specific English words rather than numeric values is
>     causing the protocol and its processing to become less efficient and is
>     leading to complications in the definition ..."
>
>      http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/sip/current/msg01441.html
>
> Unfortunately, I could not find a response for the rest of the discussion. I'm definitely open to suggestions about the best way to ensure that this is clear to implementers.

That is usually a sign that the mail was not taken seriously.  We use
string-based enumerations all the time today.  They have great
extensibility properties, they read well (though mostly for English
speakers, I will conceded), and they don't cost any significant amount
to implement.