Re: Minutes of HTTP/1.1 editorial teleconference, July 23, 1998

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Jim Gettys:
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>* h6a  MISTAKES
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>b) The consensus was the invalidation was in fact correct, has been a 
>requirement for a long time given language existing even in 1945, and 
>it would be dangerous to remove it.  At least, that is what I remember
>while in the basement with a scared 3 year old near by over the static
>in the phone.

Needless to say I disagree with the consensus of the phone
conference.  I can't find any language about this matter in 1945 or
2068, so please point me to it.  Also, the requirement has no teeth
anyway because a system is always free to act as a tunnel, not as a
cache, for certain requests.  

I could change my mind about this issue if someone would provide some
evidence that current practice actually conforms to the proposed new
requirment.  As far as I know currently deployed systems do not, and
the new requirement would only shorten the useful lifetime of the
protocol.

Koen.

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