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

On 10/12/2015 18:24, S Moonesamy wrote:
> Hi Naren,
> At 09:15 10-12-2015, Naren wrote:
>> We can rephrase that sentence to
>>
>> "IMAP server MAY advertise this CAPABILITY before or after user has 
>> logged in.The client SHOULD be ready to handle this CAPABILITY 
>> irrespective of user authenticated state"
>>
>> We do not see any implications in this being advertised before user 
>> logged in.
>> Can you elaborate more about your concern on this.
>
> By implications, I meant:
>
>   (i)  What are the advantages of advertising the upload limit before 
> the user
>        has logged in?
A server can advertise a limit which applies to all or most users.
>   (ii) What are the disadvantages of advertising the upload limit 
> before the
>        user has logged in?
Other than a few extra bytes in the initial CAPABILITY, there are no 
disadvantages I can think of.

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