Subject: [Errata Rejected] RFC7233 (4472)

From: RFC Errata System <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 06:01:45 -0700 (PDT)

The following errata report has been rejected for RFC7233,
"Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests".

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http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7233&eid=4472

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Status: Rejected
Type: Technical

Reported by: Florian Best <[email-masked]>
Date Reported: 2015-09-13
Rejected by: Barry Leiba (IESG)

Section: 2.1

Original Text
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   o  The first and last bytes only (bytes 0 and 9999):

        bytes=0-0,-1

Corrected Text
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   o  The first and last bytes only (bytes 0 and 9999):

        bytes=0-1,-1

Notes
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If the first byte is requested the offset must be 1.
 --VERIFIER NOTES-- 
The reporter has retracted this after more testing, saying that "The sentence 'the byte positions specified are inclusive' seems to explain it," though he thinks it could be explained more clearly and directly.

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RFC7233 (draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-26)
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Title               : Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests
Publication Date    : June 2014
Author(s)           : R. Fielding, Ed., Y. Lafon, Ed., J. Reschke, Ed.
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis APP
Area                : Applications
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG