Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC on draft-ietf-appsawg-xdash-02.txt

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

After discussing this a bit more with Pete Resnick off-line, we found a place where I missed a major assumption: this draft is only about parameter names, not numbers. Pete believes that this changes things hugely, but I am less sure. Regardless, we agreed it needs to be clarified.

Proposed text to be added after the second paragraph of Section 1:

Note that this document only discusses parameters with text names; it does not discuss parameters that are expressed with numbers. The difference between these two is that text names of parameters (for example, "hash-type" and "x-hash-type") tend to appear in administrative and user interfaces much more often than numbers that identify parameters (for example, 7 or 0xa007). The misuse of parameters with text names and with numbers are similar; developers will try to get experimental parameters standardized without changing the parameter value, developers mis-use unassigned values without going through the defined registration procedure, and so on. However, the more likely exposure to administrators and users limits the focus of this document only to named parameters.

--Paul Hoffman