At Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:44:01 +0200,
Aki Niemi wrote:
> 
> 
> On ti, 2008-03-04 at 12:20 -0800, ext Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Something like in S 5.3:
> 
>    The subscriber MUST be
>    prepared to receive a NOTIFY with any entity-tag value, including a
>    value that matches any previous value that the subscriber might have
>    seen.

Yeah, I don't think that's at all clear. For all I know, that
could mean the server is running in a VM and was rolled back.


> > > > 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.
> 
> That's exactly what the model already says.

Sorry, that should have said "the same content".


> Your original question was whether "A" and "A" could have the same etag.
> According to the draft, yes.

But I don't think that's clear as you seem to think it is.


> ALso according to the draft, if you decided
> to give them a different etag, fine. Nothing would break. Everything
> would work exactly the same way.
> 
> I'm apparently missing what practical problem the draft is not
> addressing.

I'm not saying there's a practical problem the draft is not addressing.
I'm saying the draft isn't unambiguous and it's simple to make it
so.

-Ekr

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