At 10:00 AM 2/21/02 -0800, Jeff Stephenson wrote:
(1) There's only one place to look to see header fields.
(2) When a temporary/proprietary field moves to standardized, the
maintainers of the registry need only change a status field rather than
move the entry between registries.
Admittedly neither of these is a big deal, but they are IMHO advantages
to a single registry over a split registry and I see no advantages the
other way around; maybe someone can enlighten me.
Speaking for myself:
I would like to be able to use the (permanent) registry entries as a basis
for constructing URNs for use in (say) a generic message archive and
classification system. This is my motivation for doing this work.
Having transient, non-permanent entries would break the RFC 1737
persistence requirements for URNs.
#g
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