At 10:47 PM 2/3/2002 -0600, Pete Resnick wrote:
Right. In this case, however, I think what we do is shift the "burden of
proof": If you want to register a header field in the "non-standard"
registry, that's all well and good, but the IETF may, by some consensus
process, put a note on your registration that says, "This is boneheaded;
don't use". What we want to do is get the bar lowered enough so that some
benign and widely deployed header field can be registered and documented
without having to wait for consensus on "the best way to do this".
Good idea. This matches what is done for non-standards track RFCs.
d/
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