On 2/8/2018 8:17 AM, Mark Delany wrote:
"v=1" doesn't have to come first. It just usually does. I think there was
a version of RFC4871 that did that, but then when challenged we couldn't
come up with a good reason to keep it that way.
Heh. I'm still waiting to hear a good reason as to why "v=" exists at all -
apart
from exposing brittle parsers which mistakenly expect it to show up as the first
tag.
There appears to be a genetically-encoded belief in the value of version
numbers, independent of the logic against it. The belief is pervasive
and seems to cross all technical cultures, experiential sets, and
protocol layers.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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