RE: [Pppext] Suggesting Improvements in RFC 1990.

[Vernon Schryver <vjs at calcite.rhyolite.com>]

> From: James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com>
> To: Vernon Schryver <vjs at calcite.rhyolite.com>
> Cc: pppext at ietf.org

> >  - get rid of or deprecate Self-Describing-Padding.
> >     I disagree with James Carlson.  I believe there are no existing
> >     implementations except perhaps student exercises that include
> >     Self-Describing-Padding.
>
> How is that disagreeing with me? 

I was being flip.

>                                   I also said there are no known
> implementations that do this, and the point of it at all is rather
> obscure and almost completely without merit on non-terminal fragments.

You say "rather obscure and almost completely without merit on
non-terminal fragments."  That is an effusive recommendation compared
to what I think about it.  My views about it are more negative than
"completely without merit."


Vernon Schryver    vjs at rhyolite.com

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