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Re: Chris Newman's comment on draft-ietf-sieve-notify



Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> 
> Chris has posted the following comment during the IESG review:
> 
>> An issue with nomenclature that I recommend fixing.  This document uses
>> the term "importance" with a completely different meaning from the
>> "importance" header in the Header Registry.  

That seems potentially confusing.

>> Indeed, in this document,
>> the term "importance" has the same meaning as the "priority" header in
>> the mail headers registry and the "urgency" header in the XMPP registry.
>> I would prefer this used consistent terminology.  I recommend ":urgency"
>> or ":priority" instead of ":importance".  

BTW in XMPP we called it "urgency" because we already use the term
"priority" in the context of presence (but not in the context of messaging).

>> I understand the change would
>> be annoying this late in the process given the notify XMPP document has
>> to be updated as well, which is why I'm not making this a discuss issue.
>> But please consider this seriously.
> 
> Are people Ok with changing the tag name? Are there any implementations
> of the latest draft?
> 
> If there is no WG consensus to change the tag name, authors can update
> the tag description to use consistent terminology.

Preventing confusion always seems like a good idea.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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