Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-appsawg-xdash-03.txt> (Deprecating Use of the "X-" Prefix in Application Protocols) to Best Current Practice

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On 3/6/12 4:46 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> Hey Peter,

Howdy. :)

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Saint-Andre
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 3:32 PM
>> To: Randall Gellens
>> Cc: Mark Nottingham; ietf@xxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-appsawg-xdash-03.txt> (Deprecating
>> Use of the "X-" Prefix in Application Protocols) to Best Current
>> Practice
>>
>> However, note the existence of things like the "x-gzip" and "gzip"
>> content codings in HTTP, which RFC 2068 says are equivalent. An
>> implementation that programmatically discriminated between "standard"
>> and "non-standard" parameters based solely on the parameter names might
>> automatically reject entities for which a content-coding of "x-gzip" is
>> specified, but automatically accept entities for which a content-coding
>> of "gzip" is specified. IMHO that's just wrong, and MUST NOT is
>> appropriate.
> 
> So should this document note that it "Updates 2068"?

I don't think so, because "x-gzip" and "gzip" were in fact equivalent
(as far as I can see), so treating them as equivalent seems just fine.

Peter

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