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Re: ;binary migration solution

To: David Chadwick <d.w.chadwick@salford.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: ;binary migration solution
From: mcs@netscape.com (Mark C Smith)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:47:50 -0500
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Mark C Smith wrote:

But your proposal does allow new servers that do not need to support old clients to NOT implement ;binary.

I retract the above comment. Your proposal is that new servers must support old clients. This is quite a mess from an interoperability point of view. If all servers support the old and new method and if the functionality is equivalent, why would a client implementor ever bother using the new way?

-Mark

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