From: Nick Boalch (n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 09:01:52 CST
Charles Lindsey wrote:
>>An internal note in section 3.1.1.3 refers to a draft on Message-ID
>>construction prepared early on in the project. Are you referring to
>>'Recommendations for generating Message-IDs' (Matt Curtin and Jwz) or
>>'Guidelines for the Generation of Message IDs and Similar Unique Identifiers'
>>(Claus Andre Faerber) -- I'm assuming the latter.
>
> No, I was thinking of the former. Can you give me a pointer to the latter?
Both are available from the Usefor Archive on landfield.com: the Curtin &
Zawinski draft from July 1998 at
<URL:http://www.landfield.com/usefor/drafts/draft-ietf-usefor-message-id-01.txt>
and the Faerber draft from September 1998 at
<URL:http://www.landfield.com/usefor/drafts/draft-ietf-usefor-msg-id-alt-00.txt>
> And do people think this WG should be promoting an Informational document
> on those lines (no, NOT NOW! Later when these present drafts are out of
> the way)?
Personally I can't see any reason why not. Consistent generation of unique
Message-IDs is a sufficiently important thing that I think it deserves some
attention, and as long as we have a draft anyway...
>>Section 3.1.1.4 - I don't see any real reason why the MUST NOT needs to be
>>downgraded. Are there hordes of people queuing up to start their
>>Subject-headers with "cmsg "?
>
> I dunno. Are there still extant servers that interpret a Subject: cmsg...
> as a control message and create new groups from it? If so, they are
> terribly, irretrievably broken and I didn't see why people should still be
> expected to pander to them.
Fair enough. I don't have any strong feelings either way, to be honest. Would
you suggest downgrading it to SHOULD NOT or removing it altogether?
Oh, and some orthography pedantry: "posters" in section 3.1.1.7 should have an
apostrophe.
Regards,
N.
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