Re: AD review of draft-ietf-imapapnd-appendlimit-extension-06 (Section 2)

On 10/12/2015 16:32, S Moonesamy wrote:
> Hi Naren,
> At 07:52 10-12-2015, Naren wrote:
>> Our MAY means
>> (a) The IMAP server can advertise this capability before the user has 
>> logged in.
>> OR
>> (b) The IMAP server can advertise this capability after the user has 
>> logged in.
>
> Based on the AD review [1] and the short discussion about that 
> sentence in Section 2, my opinion is that the intent of the what is 
> written in the draft is not clear.  What are the implications of (a) 
> and (b)?  What if the IMAP server advertises that there is a limit 
> which applies to all mailboxes before the user has logged in?
The it means that the limit applies to all users. However the server can 
also return another limit for some users after logging in, which will 
override the globally announced limit. So it is not OR, but AND/OR.
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy (as document shepherd)
>
> 1. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/imapext/current/msg05633.html

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