On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote: > So then, what clients *do* use this behavior? I'm not too keen on > declaring a large number of servers noncompliant (or even in violation of > a SHOULD) if there are no advantages to doing so [since no clients use > this behavior anyway].
I don't think that any servers should be declared non-compliant if (as it seems) it's primarily a matter of academic interest. Getting references to work with a trailing hierarchy delimiter was much more important than this. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
