- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: 2008年11月15日 14:01:27 -0800
- To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Cc: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
- Message-Id: <48DACC01-8AA6-48EB-AEA8-3F1A844E85CB@mnot.net>
Yes, all requirements language in the proposal is normative (i.e., uppercase it). Sorry for the confusion. On 14/11/2008, at 5:34 AM, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Brian Smith wrote: >> Jamie Lokier wrote: >>> Mark Nottingham wrote: >>>> Yes; we looked at disallowing it, but implementations that support >>>> folding do already support whitespace-only lines. We don't want to >>>> make them non-conforming. Also, it made the ABNF really, really >>>> ugly. >>>> Really. >>>> >>>> We're considering discouraging producing all-whitespace >>>> continuation >>>> lines in prose. Thoughts? >>> >>> All continuation lines are discouraged; maybe that could be worded a >>> little more strongly. With the word "discouraged" :-) >> >> Mark already said "[S]enders must not produce messages that include >> LWS >> folding[.]" It would be confusing to make LWS folding a MUST NOT >> and then >> make a special case of it "discouraged." > > Ok, make sure to capitalise the MUST NOT and I'm happy :-) > > -- Jamie > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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