On Thursday, August 18, 2011 05:34:47 PM Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> I think there's still an open question about whether Section 5.1 belongs
> here or in the fledgling SPFbis effort.  I think we have a few choices
> there:
> 
> 1) Do it this way, since the future and path of SPFbis is uncertain.
> 
> 2) Do it as its own memo and see if APPSAWG will pick it up right away.  It
> would only contain the "exp" and "redirect" entries just for the sake of
> creating the registry, and would be marked as "updates 4408".  Then, this
> memo simply updates that registry, and SPFbis can update it as well if
> needed.  This might be the cleanest solution.  (Barry, thoughts?)
> 
> 3) Replace Section 5 with text that basically says we know SPF doesn't
> allow unknown modifiers, but proceed anyway because people that want this
> will be able to make the distinction somehow.  That might warrant demoting
> this to Experimental and upgrading it later.  Then SPFbis or a separate
> action can create the registry and make it all formal when its future is
> more clear.
> 
> I'm quite in favour of 1 and/or 2.

My preference would be to leave it here until 4408bis has some traction, but 
I'm OK with either 1 or 2.  4408 does allow unknown modifiers (unknown 
mechanisms aren't allowed), the registry just ensures the namespace is managed 
to avoid collisions.

Scott K
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