Re: Ben Campbell's No Objection on draft-ietf-imapapnd-appendlimit-extension-08: (with COMMENT)

S Moonesamy <[email protected]> Thu, 07 Jan 2016 09:09:06 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imapext
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Hi Jay, Alexey,

At 08:41 07-01-2016, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>SHOULD implies that it is possible for the client not to parse one 
>of the variants in some circumstances. I think not using normative 
>language is better here (or switch to MUST).

Yes.  I don't think that using normative language is appropriate in 
that sentence.

At 08:28 07-01-2016, Jayantheesh S B wrote:
>IMAP client implementing this extension, should be capable to parse 
>both Mailbox-specific and Global APPENDLIMIT response.
>
>IMAP client ignoring one format may result in non-compliance to this 
>extension. To stress that point we have added RFC 2119 "SHOULD" in 
>that sentence.

I'll suggest the following text:

   An IMAP client implementing this extension should be able to parse both
   mailbox-specific and global APPENDLIMIT responses.


Regards,
S. Moonesamy (as document shepherd) 

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