>>>>> IЯaki Baz Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Anyway, if SIP wouldn't be SOOOOO permissive, if it would be more 
> restrictive, 
> implementations would be easier, more effective and with better performance. 
> But no, instead of that let's allow any kind of symbols, escaping, ridiculous 
> URI headers, painful URI comparissions that NOBODY implements (19.1.4), etc 
> etc...

This is common IETF problem: it's occupied by grammatists with
paranoia of permissive approach.
Another example is case-insensitive matching in text protocols,
which requires to spend memory for copy of any header, field or
attribute name which is written in non-canonic form (e.g.
"Call-ID" vs. "call-id"), field name aliases, etc.

The greatest example of grammatists' defeat was RFC822 which had
got NONE fully correct implementation among widespreaded ones. But
this didn't give them any experience.

-- 
Valentin Nechayev
PortaOne Inc., Software Engineer
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