At 05:51 PM 10/4/2001, ned+ietf-822(_at_)mrochek(_dot_)com wrote:
And in the case of precedence, even if you eliminate the usage that doesn't
belong in a header field (control over delay notifications), you still
have two
different camps with incompatible views of how the field should be used
(in X.400 terms, priority versus importance).
hmmm. perhaps this suggests an approach that registers headers known to be
in common use, but lacking in a formal specification, giving all of them a
single generic specification pointer to a document that says:
"This use of this is not standardized.
There is no formal specification for using this.
People use this in different ways."
We do not need to go into value judgements, but simply provide people with
the facts.
d/
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