Re: Niggles in usepro-draft-11

Julien ÉLIE <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:57:04 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.usenet.format
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Ho Thorfinn,

>>>>       Accordingly, news servers SHOULD
>>>>       apply to a Supersedes header field the same authentication and
>>>>       authorization checks as they would apply to cancel control
>>>>       messages.
>>
>> Does "the same authentication and authorization checks as they would
>> apply" versus "whatever authentication and authorization checks they  would apply" feel different in meaning to you?
>
> "the same checks" does definitely have a small difference in  implication to "whatever checks".  "the same checks" has a slightly 
> stronger implication that there is at least one check.  It's not a  hugely stronger implication, no.  And it is just in 
> implication,  rather than in explicit meaning.

Why not say "the same authentication and authorization checks, if any,
as they would apply"?

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Julien ÉLIE

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