Re: [apps-discuss] Fwd: I-D Action:draft-saintandre-xdash-considered-harmful-01.txt

[Royer Software and Services <[e-mail]>]

Stop producing 'X-' == good idea.

There was an annoyingly long X- debate on calsch years ago.

The problem there was vendors hijacking the protocol with tons of their 
vendor specific extensions such
that it was difficult to have real interoperability.

Another problem was when vendors used their extensions to alter the flow 
or meaning of the data. With their
application it works just fine, with their competitors, it would 
sometimes work depending on the rest of the data.
So calsch said that those not approved by the working group, are 
considered experimental and must start
with X- .

A registration process with some additional instructions would have 
solved the problem. I can see in the future
it would be written as, those extensions not approved by the working 
groups must be registered vendor specific
and must not alter the flow or meaning of the data.

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