At Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:07:07 +0200,
Aki Niemi wrote:
> 
> 
> On ti, 2008-03-04 at 07:19 -0800, ext Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > >         [An entity-tag is] guaranteed to be unique across all versions
> > >         of all entities for a resource and event package.
> > > 
> > > If the version of the entity, in this case "A", is identical to a
> > > previous version, which is "A" in this case, then the entity-tag can
> > > certainly be the same as well.
> > 
> > It's not clear to me that the text you are quoting implies the
> > interpretation that you just provided. In fact, I would note that you
> > are referring to "the version" and "the previous version" which
> > suggests that they are separate versions and must have different
> > ETags.
> 
> Then I'd appreciate any suggestion to make it clearer.

Explicitly state that in the case I described that it's permissible
to deliver the same Etag in the first and third versions.


> > Given that when I asked this question I got two different answers from
> > Dale and Dean, I submit that the draft might be improved by directly
> > addressing this point. Note that I don't care about the resolution,
> > but I do care that the draft be unambiguous.
> 
> Can you point out the unambiguity?

I think Dean did a good job with that, namely that one could
view "versions" as instances, and that two versions with
different content are different versions and so need
different Etags.

-Ekr

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