From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 09:01:59 CST
In <Pine.BSI.3.91.1011231205935.4003B-100000@spsystems.net> Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:
>Agreed; when it's deployment time, that's what you should do. But the X-
>convention remains useful and desirable for preliminary experimenting.
>Since any X- header which appears on the net at large is, by definition,
>an escaped experiment, it should always be ignored.
But when is "deployment time"?
Some hotheads will say "tonight, as soon as I have finished hacking this
code".
Others will say "only when a standards track RFC has been accepted by the
IESG".
And there will exist every stage you can imagine between those extremes
:-( .
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