At 17.03 -0600 02-02-06, Pete Resnick wrote:
This gives us an opportunity to quickly try to convince
the bonehead that he is in fact a bonehead and get him to
instead use In-Reply-To/References and, if that fails,
quickly come to a consensus that this *is* a stupid idea
and quickly get "This is stupid; don't do it" put into the
registry.
Very good idea! There should be some way for the community,
perhaps even qualified single experts, to register
criticism of an entry in the registry.
We have been developing a software with a similar facility.
Our system has an index of terms, a definition of each
term, and other people can comment on this definition. In
practice, our system works like a forum system, where every
term has its own separate forum. However, a normal forum
system might generate too much comment, one would not want
an implementor of "Reply-To" to read through all the
thousand messages on that topic in the drums working group.
Such a person would best be aided by reading a short
summary of each of the conflicting views on this header
name.
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Jacob Palme <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/