Re: [lemonade] I-D Action:draft-ietf-lemonade-profile-bis-09.txt

[Dave Cridland <dave at cridland.net>]

On Sat Jun 21 15:55:47 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:
> Are you, personally, willing to guarantee that this proposed  
> additional (and IMHO pointless) complexity will never cause a  
> problem, now and in the future?
FWIW, I'm not willing to guarantee it, without investing quite a bit  
of work which, I'd point out, saves no round-trips, and only a small  
amount of bandwidth for sub-optimal clients at startup.


> It IS additional complexity.  It is an added behavior rule, with  
> implications for both server and client.  The sole apparent purpose  
> is to save a few octets of network traffic.  The cost is that  
> misbehavior by either client or server will cause bugs.
Agreed.

Dave.
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