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Re: [ietf-822] What about doing more? (was: Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-crocker-inreply-react-01.txt)

2020-10-11 22:50:10
On Sun, Oct 11, 2020, at 10:44 PM, John Levine wrote:
In article 
<106aecda-a406-4fc5-8d3d-66c3c364edaa(_at_)www(_dot_)fastmail(_dot_)com> you 
write:
The problem here is that some implementors like to validate data at layers 
were its validity is (probably) irrelevant to its intended use.

"Don't do that".

Right.  And my email said:
Maybe this warrants a note for implementors, and maybe not, but it seemed 
worth raising the point.

So:  "Is it worth including «Don't do that.» in this spec?"

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020, at 10:44 PM, John Levine wrote:
If they haven't already figured out that it's a fool's errand to
validate Unicode beyond broad rules like don't allow surrogates in
UTF-8, they're not going to figure it out for this tiny hack.

I believe this says "It is not worth including that."

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rjbs
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