On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, at 09:09, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> I think (but don't have a solid recollection) that this may have 
> stemmed from a desire for the sender to know if the recipient supports 
> flags at all.  But thinking about it now (and as Ekr's response 
> suggests), so long as we don't allocate flags for existing extensions, 
> there is not much useful to do with that information in cases where the 
> extension semantics of the flag(s) in question don't require a response.

Wouldn't it be possible to send the extension with an empty set of flags?  We 
don't permit trailing zero bytes, but a zero-length sequence indicates support 
without signaling for any specific flag.

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