Re: [Tools-discuss] [Fwd:I-D Action:draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol-50.txt]

["Spencer Dawkins" <spencer at wonderhamster.org>]

I'm thinking that we should NOT fix the tools to accommodate three-digit 
draft numbers, because if this happens even once, there are things that are 
more broken than the tools...

bernard pointed me to the excellent web page 
http://www.arkko.com/tools/lifecycle/extremes.html a couple of days ago. 
Words fail me.

Spencer

> > So, half way to the interesting case of someone trying to submit
> > a -100.txt draft. How many tools will that break, I wonder?
>
> It looks like the ID submission tool does check that revision
> is <= 99. And the database field for this has type 'CHAR(2)' anyway :-)
>
> (However, I think there are places that would break if someone
> managed to submit -99; so the check should be "<= 98").