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

Kurt Zeilenga <Kurt.Zeilenga@Isode.COM> Wed, 03 November 2010 13:20 UTC

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On Nov 2, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:

> 
> 
> On 11/2/2010 8:56 PM, Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
>> Has our operational experience in the last few years been so different than
>> that the previous decades that consensus shifted 180 degrees?
> 
> 
> X- was first introduced as a construct in RFC 822 in 1982.
> 
> It was dropped as a construct in the revision, RFC 2822, in 2001.
> 
> That's longer than "last few years".

A few years since we last approved BCP 26.

> 
> The construct actually /impedes/ standardization.
> 
> It was a clever idea.  It turned out to be misguided.
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> d/
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