Re: Uncommented diff: define expected <path-identity>

In <[email protected]> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:

>I proposed the following diff in response to one of the previous
>discussions, but I don't think I ever got any feedback and hence never
>applied it.  Could people look this over and tell me if it should be
>included?

+1, modulo typo below.

>This change goes into the section defining the Path header field.

>Index: usepro.xml
>===================================================================
>--- usepro.xml	(revision 5041)
>+++ usepro.xml	(working copy)
>@@ -405,7 +405,13 @@
>                   followed by the FQDN, IP address, or expected
>                   &lt;path-identity> of the source.</t>
>                 </list>
>-              Be aware that <xref target="RFC1036" /> did not include
>+              The "expected &lt;path-identity> of the source of the
>+              article" is a &lt;path-identity> for the injecting or
>+              relaying agent that passed the article to this relaying or
>+              serving agent, determined by properties of connection via
                                                          ^
                                                         the
>+              which the article was received (for example, an
>+              authentication identity or a peer IP address).  Be aware
>+              that <xref target="RFC1036" /> did not include
>               &lt;path-diagnostic>.  Implementations which predate this
>               specification will add only single "!" characters between
>               &lt;path-identity> strings.</t>

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