Without some way to choose which rule to use and when to use it, how
can a recommendation that has conditional rule usage be implemented?
- Ralph
On Jun 3, 2008, at Jun 3, 2008,8:50 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
Thomas Narten <narten(_at_)us(_dot_)ibm(_dot_)com> writes:
Longest match in 3484 is a hack, ant it only works some of the
time. The WG most certinaly knew this when we approved the
document. But it was felt that longest-match was better than no rule
at all, as it helped on some situations.
The real discussion that should be held is what could we replace it
with if we pulled out the rule entirely?
We do need something better. What would that be?
I suggest to describe the longest match as a rule that can be used
some
of time, and describe a new rule, random selection, to be used some of
the time. Then you recommend the latter approach when the application
don't know that the longest match rule is more appropriate.
This would seem to meet the objective of causing the least surprise
and
the least damage.
Thanks,
Simon
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