Re: -1 on the features draft

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis@xxxxxx>]

* Bill de hOra <bill@xxxxxxxxxx> [2007-09-15 16:07]:
> 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.

If you have a better proposal, I’d love to hear it.

> 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.

Stopping the features draft won’t reduce fragility unless a
better proposal exists. Vendors will make something up if they
have to, and if you think the features draft is bad, just *wait*
to see what *they* come up with.

Regard,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>