Re: References definitions and capabilities

From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 08:46:36 CDT


In <20040824071130.GC9517@tagseth-trd.consultit.no> Eivind Tagseth <eivindt@multinet.no> writes:

>* Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> [2004-08-23 18:22:22 +0000]:

>> No, you can't do that, because using References for multi-part FAQs would
>> then violate a MUST in the References-header (and you cannot advise people
>> in USEAGE to do that). The minimal fix is to relax that MUST in the
>> References-header (which is what I have proposed). The same effect can be
>> achieved by altering the definition of 'followup'; some people seem to
>> prefer that.

>Of course you can do that, unless you have a really strict definition of a
>followup.

But at the moment we do have a strict definition of a followup.

> You want to have this strict definition, while relaxing the
>definition of the protocol.

You can either relax the protocol (which I favour) or you can relax the
definition. What you cannot do is to do neither of those things. That is
all I was trying to say.

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