Re: ;binary a/b design teams' summary / recommendation review

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Mark Wahl schrieb:
> 
> "Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
> >
> > The WG is to consider the teams' proposal to remove ;binary
> > feature (and all mention of transfer options).  A two-week
> > comment period is hereby initiated on this proposal
> > ending 24 May 2002.  Based upon your comments, the WG chairs
> > will gauge WG consensus and take appropriate actions.
> 
> Removal of this element and its capability would hinder further
> interoperability and should not be done.
> 
> The story that I remember being told about the early days of the IETF was
> that implementors of TCP/IP stacks came together for a bake-off, found a
> difference of understanding about how the checksumming algorithm was to be
> implemented, and then a choice of interpretation was made.  That choice
> was put into the revised spec and the implementors were then able to
> have their implementations interoperate.
> 
> There have been LDAP interoperability tests for years now, which have found
> issues and proposed changes to the spec based on what has been found to
> work in running code.

Mark,

I'm sorry but I can't derive from the story above why ;binary should not
be removed.

Ciao, Michael.