Quoteing moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu, on Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at
09:47:10PM -0400:
let's put it this way - anyone wanting to deploy X- fields and then have
them standardized later is making things considerably more difficult for
themselves than necessary.
Sure, And the reason this is so should be mentioned in 2822, rather than
leaving folks just mystified, or searching megabytes of the drums
archives, wherein you will find many opinions expressed, and be lost as
to the ones which eventually held sway, and resulted in the drop of x-.
From a standpoint of what belongs in the document, I agree with you.
But if we had tried to sort out all of these issues, we'd have missed the
opportunity to use 2822 as an RFC number, and we'd curently be trying to get
that same document out the door in time for it to be published as RFC 4822.