[spec] Oustanding issues

[John Cowan]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 6:23 AM Solderpunk <solderpunk at posteo.net> wrote:


> * The spec is a bit vague on under which circumstances the META part of
>   a response header may be empty, and on exactly what that means (e.g.
>   is a tab after the status code still required in any case?).  This
>   needs to be tightened up, and I'm pretty sure this should be done by
>   just making non-empty META a requirement.
>

If empty META strings are going to be invalid (I think they should be),
then the last graf of 3.3 should be deleted.


* There's been a request for recommendations on logging of queries.  I
>   think this is out of scope for the itself, but an entirely
>   appropriate thing to mention in either the Best Practices document or
>   a separate companion standard for standard logging format.
>

I'll address that in a separate thread.  I'm also going to talk about i18n
issues (other than IRIs) in a separate thread.


John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but if you called it
an onion you'd get cooks very confused.          --RMS
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