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Re: -1 on the features draft




Tim Bray wrote:

On Sep 14, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Joe Cheng wrote:

What does "defining new status codes" mean? Does that give me a way
of knowing a server is not going to respect the Draft flag?

Dear Bill and everyone else: People like Joe are going to invent all sorts of weird voodoo extensions to the protocol, whether we like it or not.

I see no reason to suspend technical judgment. The mU thing is flawed, there's no way to express how features relate to each other; in combination they represent point to point wins at expense of overall fragility.

cheers
Bill