Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:44:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Keith Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu>
[...]
what you seem to be wanting is for IETF to bless nonstandard practices
for a widely-used, critical service that is sensitive to disruption -
or at least, for IETF to make such practices appear "equal" to standards.
I think that would counterproductive to IETF's purpose.
We don't want the IETF to "bless" nonstandard practices. We just want
a useful registry that helps people in implementation and prevents
standardization of fields that have already been used for a different
meaning.
Larry