On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > If you're going to standardize a prefix that's purely for private, > internal use and will never, ever be standardized in any fashion, could I > convince you (and Nils) to use a prefix other than X-? E-mail has > poisoned the well on X-, and now people read it to mean "anything that's > not been standardized yet" and tend to use it for things that they do plan > to standardize later. They're not all going to read the documentation. > > For this particular use, how about a prefix of Private- instead? That > makes it much more explicit that if you're not the organization adding > this, you shouldn't expect to understand it or ever use it.
It sounds weird to me on first sight but I would not mind using another prefix. Let's see what Nils and Guillem think. (and others who might care) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
