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Expand Up @@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ Given this information, the result of {ExecuteRequest(schema, document,
operationName, variableValues, initialValue)} produces the response, to be
formatted according to the Response section below.

A GraphQL service must ignore unrecognized information in a request. This allows
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This seems a little broad; arguably something inside the document (an unknown directive, a new syntactic symbol, fragment arguments) is in the request and could be unrecognized, and those should result in validation/parse errors rather than being ignored. Maybe we can use “additional” instead, such as “must ignore any additional unrecognised information” - that implies it’s outside of what’s already specified here?

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Makes sense to me 👍 . I know @leebyron wanted to make some wording changes, I'll defer to his decision.

a service to remain resilient to changes in future versions of this
specification.

Note: GraphQL requests do not require any specific serialization format or
transport mechanism. Message serialization and transport mechanisms should be
chosen by the implementing service.
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