At 1:19 AM -0500 3/7/12, Paul E. Jones wrote:
I suppose one could argue that X- should never be on the Public Internet,
anyway. But they are. If we remove X-, then what will happen is developers
will use names that don't have X-. Will that make things better? No. I'd
argue it will make it worse.
Non-standard extensions do present issues, that's no in question. However,
killing X- will only mean other values will be used. At least X- can be
ignored.
I was quite skeptical for a while, but came around to seeing the case
that trying to segregate non-standard parameters ends up creating
more problems than it solves.
You're right that people will use names without an 'x' and the draft
encourages this. So, we'll end up with (as I think the draft
suggests), situations where 'priority' is the old, non-standard name,
and 'urgency' is the new, standardized name, instead of 'x-priority'
and 'priority'. But the fact is that names which start out as
non-standard hacks end up being de facto standards. That's no better.
--
Randall Gellens
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