RE: Compatibility requirements

[Andrew Draper <ADRAPER@altera.com>]

> > Since this was derived from one of my requirements I have to confess
that I
> > made up the term "language set".  What I meant this to mean was that a)
if
> > we specify a protocol which uses language tagging those tags should be
> > opaque to a caching server and b) if we specify a canonicalisation
algorithm
> >the caching server should perform correctly* regardless of how much (or
how
> >little) of that algorithm it has implemented.
>
> I agree with requirement (a) and its wording. Let's not invent new terms 
> like "language set". As for (b), the requirements doc should not be 
> requiring the canonicalization; the protocol doc should.

Agree.  What about:

If the IDNS protocol specifies a canonicalisation algorithm then a caching 
server should perform correctly* regardless of how much (or how little) of 
that algorithm it has implemented.

    Andy