Precisely.

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 2:42 PM Martin Thomson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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