From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 13 2001 - 06:22:36 CDT
In <ylpuehadwu.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>>> Header-names are case-insensitive. There is a preferred case
>>> convention,
>> Then they are not case-insensitive. If you tell people they should be a
>> certain way and they don't have to be any certain way in the same
>> paragraph, they will look at you funny. We've already seen the noise
>> that this "preferred case" statement causes and the standard isn't even
>> out yet.
>Seconded. Let's please drop the whole case convention stuff entirely. It
>shouldn't matter, it definitely doesn't rate a SHOULD (since there's no
>interoperability issue involved, and in fact we require there to not be an
>interoperability issue), and that whole thing is just kind of dumb. Most
>people will use the case convention from how it's presented in the RFC
>without any prompting at all, and for those people who don't, what does it
>matter?
s/SHOULD/Ought to/
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