At 18.10 +0000 02-02-04, Charles Lindsey wrote:
Dan's registry is unofficial, and not everybody knows where to find it.
And (AIUI) it contains just whatever Dan thinks it ought, or ought not, to
contain. An IANA registry would be findable, authoritative, and would have
defined rules (the purpose of this discussion is to see what those rules
should look like, of course).
In the case of RFC 2076, I have tried to not only
present my opinion, but also that of other people.
Whenever I get a comment on it, I try to rewrite
it. Before publication, Ned Freed reviewed the
whole text and I made a number of changes based
on his suggestions. The present version, however,
at http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/ietf/mail-headers/,
contains however more than twice the number of
headers of the RFC, and no one has made any
complete review of the text.
We might ask one or two specialists read the
latest version, and then re-publish it as a
new RFC, outdating the previous 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/