On 11/08/2016 06:25 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 9 November 2016 at 05:59, Brian Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This isn't a pervasively shared goal, though. It's good to let the browsers
>> police things if they want, but I think a lot of implementations would
>> prefer to avoid doing work that isn't necessary for interop or security.
> If you permit someone to enforce it, then that is sufficient.  I don't
> think that we should ever force someone to enforce these sorts of
> things (as you say, sometimes strict enforcement isn't cheap or even
> desirable).
>

Agreed.  We should probably change the text a bit, though, as right now
readers can get two different readings depending on whether they go for
a strict decode_error (or illegal_parameter?) since the struct doesn't
match the definition, or follow the "MUST be ignored for all purposes".

-Ben
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