Re: AD review of draft-ietf-imapapnd-rfc2088bis-03

Hi Barry,

On 5 Mar 2016, at 16:19, Barry Leiba <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> In bullet 1:
>>> 
>>>      (The server is allowed to send the tagged BAD/NO response before
>>>      reading the whole non-synchronizing literal.)
>>> 
>>> Substantive: Shouldn't that be "the server is not allowed" (missing "not")?
>> 
>> No, the sentence is correct as written. Some servers send BAD right after
>> observing the non-synchronising literal prefix and that is Ok.
> 
> Hm, but then I think the sentence is meaningless.  The server still
> has to read and discard the literal, so whether it sends the BAD
> before or after it does that hardly matters.  What are you really
> trying to say with that parenthetical that's useful?

This is a valuable implementation advice.
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