h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:

That said, pretending that Microsoft does not exist isn't always a winning strategy, so it might make sense to implement a "relaxed" mode which accepts common ways to break the standard. But I don't think it should be turned on by default.

We don't pretend Microsoft doesn't exist. But we *do* expect them to mean what they say; since 3 Microsoft employees worked on RFC2696 you would sort of expect them to get it right.