Re: HTTP 1.1 issue 24: 13.12 Cache Replacement

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> In section 13.12 "Cache Replacement", the statement
> 
> "If it inserts the new response into cache storage it
> SHOULD follow the rules in section 13.5.3."
> 
> could be construed as downgrading several MUSTs in 13.5.3 to SHOULDs.
> The "SHOULD" should either be replaced with "should" or this requirement
> should be upgraded to a "MUST".
> 

I think the right solution is to rewrite this sentence to be:

 "If it inserts the new response into cache storage the rules in section
 13.5.3 apply."
				- Jim

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