At 12.36 +0100 0-10-13, Graham Klyne wrote:
Hi all,
I just surfed to the IANA site expecting to find of registry of mail
message headers (per rfc822, etc), only to find none.
Is there such a registry? Should there be?
If there is/was such a registry, should MIME headers be in the same
registry, or a different one?
FWIW, I think:
(a) such a registry would be a Good Thing
(b) MIME headers should be in the same registry, as they occupy the
same collision domain in mail messages
I wrote an ietf draft on a mail header registry some years'
ago. The interest was rather lukewarm, but if I could
send it in again and ask the area managers to evaluate it.
You can find links to the proposal I wrote at
http://dsv.su.se/jpalme/ietf/jp-ietf-home.html#registry
The closest thing which exists to such a registry is
the document you can find links to at
http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/ietf/mail-headers/
It was published as an RFC many years ago,
the page above has links to a much updated version,
which I should send in for publication as a new
RFC.
--
Jacob Palme <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/