From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 18 2004 - 10:59:17 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> We have often mentioned outmoded practices, in a NOTE, to warn the
> unwary that it might still be encountered, or to explain the reason for
> some feature of the standard placed there to counteract it.
Yes, the excessive use of this practice is one of the problems with the
current draft and one of the things that makes it so unwieldly.
> Since it still exists in two implementations (in spite of not even an
> RFC 1036 blessing), I think it has to be severely deprecated somewhere,
> though that could conceivably be USEAGE.
It is strongly deprecated by stating that no special meaning is assigned
to cmsg. That completely covers the situation.
> Language that prevents the perpetuation of past errors is never wasted.
It is when you get an unreadable wad of text like we had.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>