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Re: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-klyne-msghdr-registry-02.txt

2002-02-01 12:27:20

In <200201312346(_dot_)SAA17401(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> Keith Moore 
<moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> writes:

I don't know how much we can control how X- fields are 'viewed' by
people who don't read the RFCs to see what X- was intended to mean.
The most we could do is write new RFCs that alter or clarify the
meaning of X-.  But if people didn't read the old RFCs, will they
read the new one?

But which RFCs actually tell you what X-fields are intended to mean? RFC
2822 is silent on the matter. Usefor currently mentions them for
essentially the "write-only" applications. Graham Klyne's draft provides
suitable discouragement (and that is probably the best place to say
whatever needs to be said).

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