Re: [apps-discuss] APPSDIR review of draft-ietf-appswg-xdash-03

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Fri, 09 March 2012 16:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] APPSDIR review of draft-ietf-appswg-xdash-03
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On 3/8/12 5:57 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/8/2012 3:22 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> On 3/8/12 2:48 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
>>> What the community has learned or the thirty-or-so years of the
>>> construct is that it's better to have a single, clean name space and
>>> leave status of the name as a separate issue.
>>
>> Well put.
>>
>> Yet the inclusion of delimiters in parameter names could be construed as
>> just another way segregating the namespace. So I think it might be best
>> to remove the fourth bullet point in Section 4:
>>
>>     4. SHOULD identify a convention to allow local or implementation-
>>        specific extensions, and reserve delimeters for such uses as
>>        needed.
> 
> 
> I think +1

Removed in our working copy.

Peter

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