Kurt Andersen (b) <kboth(_at_)drkurt(_dot_)com> wrote:
>> any system that knows what
>> some header is, (such as X-BeenThere or X-GRID-REF) *is* ought to rip
that
>> out as it knows whether or not its useful.
> That's a highly presumptuous stance to take. Knowing what a header is and
> making a judgement as to whether or not it is useful are not at all the
> same thing. Amongst other relevant points is the question of "useful to
> whom (or what)"? Something that is not useful to 99.9% of recipients might
> be very useful to the remaining 0.1% (witness the current thrash in the
> dmarc-wg regarding components within the 5322.From header field)...
my appologies... let me a use a few more words here.
(because I agree with you, and you clearly didn't understand my point)
A system that knows what X-GRID-REF is, because it use that header itself,
ought to know where it is a useful field or not, and what the implications
are of removing it.
This might deal with some of the X-Foo-bar-SOMEHEXSTUFF: that seems to
accumulate from multiple hops what I suspect is an internal load balanced set
of systems.
--
Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ca>, Sandelman Software Works
-= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
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