I think mark as a good point here. The service may expect to work with
caching functions to deliver the service - other services are not concerned
if the data is cached or not.
I do not know if you consider the caching done by the Lucent translation
service to be a cache or not? It does cache, I do not think it views
itself as any form of general cache.
At 10:12 AM 3/1/2002, Mark Nottingham wrote:
If it is only MAY, the intermediary makes the choice as to whether it
keeps a buffer. If it's 'MAY be required', the service makes the
choice.
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:20:40PM -0500, bindignavile(_dot_)srinivas(_at_)nokia(_dot_)com
wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a little confused as to what is the difference between these two
phrases:
>
> > * Section 3.2.3 - I *think* this should read "An intermediary MAY keep a
> > local copy..." -> "An intermediary MAY be required to keep a local
copy..."
>
> Dont "MAY keep" and "MAY be required to keep" imply the same thing
given the implication of MAY (RFC 2119)?
>
> Please clarify.
>
> Regards,
> -Srinivas
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