Re: draft-ietf-impp-pres-01

Dave Crocker <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jan 2003 19:41:23 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.impp
Organization Brandenburg InternetWorking
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jon,

Thursday, January 9, 2003, 11:03:12 AM, you wrote:
Jon> If you want to retain the concept that a subscription operation with 0
Jon> duration signifies either 'fetch' or 'unsubscribe', based on the
Jon> subscription state at the recipient, you still need some concept of starting
Jon> and ending time.

why won't a time of epoch (the zeroth second, the beginning of time)
suffice?


If the semantic is "stop at time x" and x = 0, then it is certain that the
end time precedes the current time.


d/
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