Re: Issue 59: Editorial comments from Tero (was: Comments of draft-ietf-mobike-protocol-04.txt)

Tero Kivinen <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:35:17 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.mobike
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] writes:
> > 9) 
> >
> > I agree with the previous proposal that we should split those
> > notifies to error and status notifies, and have separate section
> > for each of those.
> 
> I'm wondering why?  To me it seems the only reader of this spec who
> needs to know about the error/status distinction is IANA (and that's
> already covered in the IANA considerations section)...
> 
> (But if there's a good reason to do it, maybe we could re-arrange
> the subsections in Section 5 to, say, list those notifications
> whose number comes from the status type range first.)

Because as you said in the earlier, unknown status notifications are
ignored, and unknown error notifications cause request to fail
entirely. So there is difference for them in the processing point of
view too. Thats why it might be good idea to also keep them separate
in the documentation too.
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