On Thursday, March 01, 2012 10:47:50 AM The IESG wrote: > The IESG has received a request from the Applications Area Working Group > WG (appsawg) to consider the following document: > - 'Deprecating Use of the "X-" Prefix in Application Protocols' > <draft-ietf-appsawg-xdash-03.txt> as a Best Current Practice > > The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits > final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the > [email protected] mailing lists by 2012-03-15. Exceptionally, comments may be > sent to [email protected] instead. In either case, please retain the > beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. > > Abstract > > > Historically, designers and implementers of application protocols > have often distinguished between "standard" and "non-standard" > parameters by prefixing the latter with the string "X-" or similar > constructions. In practice, this convention causes more problems > than it solves. Therefore, this document deprecates the "X-" > convention for textual parameters in application protocols. ...
2. Recommendations for Implementers of Application Protocols Implementers of application protocols MUST NOT treat the general categories of "standard" and "non-standard" parameters in programatically different ways within their applications. Shouldn't this restrict itself to the naming of parameters? Perhaps: 2. Recommendations for Implementers of Application Protocols Implementers of application protocols MUST NOT treat the general naming of parameters in programmatically different ways within their applications depending on if they are "standard" or "non-standard". Other than that nit, I think it looks good. Scott K _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
