Re: How do you negotiate a numerical range?

[Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Paul Koning wrote:

> No, you are misreading the spec.

And as the last message I just sent indicates, I'm not the only one. :-)

> Only the marker interval parameters (OFMarkInt, IFMarkInt) permit
> ranges.  It is not permitted for any other parameters (see section
> 4.2).

You are correct. Search wasn't my friend on this one.

> For range proposals, the responder must choose a value from within the
> range, or Reject.  A response value outside the range is a protocol
> error, the same way that picking a value not in the list for a list
> type proposal is a protocol error.
>
> MIN and MAX apply to parameters for which a single value is offered,
> and the responder is allowed to negotiate down, or up, respectively.

Never mind other note, except to the extent that MIN and MAX may have
weird semantics with respect to ranges.

Take care,

Bill