Re: [apps-discuss] draft-saintandre-xdash-considered-harmful

Mykyta Yevstifeyev <evnikita2@gmail.com> Fri, 03 June 2011 06:57 UTC

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03.06.2011 6:24, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> On 03/06/2011, at 1:22 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>
>> On 6/2/11 9:13 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-saintandre-xdash-considered-harmful-01>
>>>
>>> Will this be progressing? I, for one, would like to see this as an BCP.
>> I'd be happy to bring it back to life
> Please do. Happy to help.
Maybe the document may be adopted as APPSAWG document; but the author 
should finally decide on this.
>
>> , although I admit that I've mostly
>> forgotten about it and that I haven't yet addressed some of the feedback
>> I received last year. Also, I think "harmful" might be a bit strong --
>> "considered-useless" perhaps?
Writing "considered harmful" RFCs is a current practice; see 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/search/?name=harmful&rfcs=on.  So I 
think having the title "X-" Considered Harmful is fine.

Mykyta Yevstifeyev
>
> Not *quite* strong enough. "considered bad practice?"
>
> Or just change the title to something more generic like "Appropriate use of X-".
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> Cheers,
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