Re: Need one more draft

["Mark Baker" <distobj@xxxxxxx>]

On 1/30/07, Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> You send the server data and the server
> does what it's gonna do.  As far as I know, this is the first
> application-level protocol ever to be designed based on this
> assumption,

Most application protocols make that assumption to some degree,
AFAICT, but some are better than others at it.  WebDAV is bad at it,
for example.  So is XCAP.  HTTP is pretty good about it, as is SMTP
and APP (modulo the "must return an Atom entry" bit 8-).

IMO, any well designed application protocol needs to make that
assumption because if it doesn't then it's not a protocol, it's an
implementation guide.

> and thus there is benefit in making it painfully explicit
> right up front.

I could live with that for the reasons Elliotte gives.

Mark.
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