Re: [apps-discuss] draft-saintandre-xdash-considered-harmful-01

[Dave CROCKER <[e-mail]>]

On 10/25/2010 3:42 PM, Thomson, Martin wrote:
> Eric-mumble is worse because Albert doesn't like Eric and so he duplicates
> the functions in his own namespace rather than cede control to Eric.  (BTW,
> that's an argument I don't see in the draft.)

Sorry, but that's a reasonable theoretical argument that has no practical 
application in this space.  If there were a practical problem, here, we'd have 
experienced it sometime in the past 28 years.

The actual experience is that fields become popular or they don't.  If they 
become popular, their name is not an -- or the -- issue.

The problem with X- is that a name beginning with that is prohibited from 
becoming a formal standard, even when every system in the world is using it. 
That's pretty dumb.


> Better to make your extensibility simple.  How about having three tiers of
> "interoperability protection":

Why?  Why add structure where the market has demonstrated no need?

Really folks, as Graham noted, anyone wishing to reserve a name can do so easily:

    <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3864 >

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   Dave Crocker
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