Re: DRAFT Montreal minutes - X#NodeArchitecture comments

William Studenmund <[email protected]>
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On Aug 2, 2006, at 12:15 AM, Sandars, Ken wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Making an extension key 'Declarative' seems problematic.
>
> Implementations which do not recognise the key will reply with
> X<blah>=NotUnderstood. This may upset the proposer since  
> "NotUnderstood"
> is unlikely to be an acceptable use of the new key.
>
> "NotUnderstood" could be treated as a special case, but do we really
> want a special case?

We talked about this in Montreal. Or I tried to a bit.

At this point, I think we have to accept "NotUnderstood" as a valid  
response to the key, indicating that the other side doesn't  
understand. We can't do anything different.

We thus should state that "NotUnderstood" is an invalid  
X#NodeArchitecture value (you MUST never attempt to assert that it's  
your architecture value), and its presence in a response should be  
taken to mean the responder doesn't understand the key.

Take care,

Bill
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