From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 21 2002 - 05:21:13 CST
In <Pine.LNX.3.91.1020118121054.13609C-100000@darkstar.prodigy.com> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@prodigy.com> writes:
>That said, perhaps someone could gen up a little web page and database
>which could be used to register such things? It needs a human in the loop
>or hipcrime and such will flood it... But the existance of such a thing
>and a posting when new headers are registered would be a nice thing to
>put in a note. Not required in any way, just as a proof of concept.
I don't think we can put "a little web page and database" in our standard.
Ideally, that is the sort of thing IANA ought to be doing, but I doubt
Graham Klyne's next draft will go as far as that except for headers that
have already found their way into an RFC.
As my text stands now, people inventing a header that will need to be
understood by widely deployed software (i.e. a new bit of protocol) is
advised to invent a non-X header for the purpose. That is a risky strategy
(hipcrime may overdo it, as you say) but our consensus seems to be that it
is better than insisting on an X-header which would have to be changed
if/when that new bit of protocol gets standardised properly.
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