Re: [Asrg] CRI Header

At 03:09 PM 6/5/2003 -0400, Tony Hansen wrote:

>Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
>>At 11:15 PM 6/4/2003 -0400, Eric D. Williams wrote:
>>Both an "X-CRI" and "CRI" headers should be defined. Until the standard 
>>gets approved, the "X-" headers will be used, once the standard is 
>>approved then both the "X-CRI" and "CRI" headers are used. This is 
>>similar to the HTTP protocol where both "gzip" and "x-gzip" are used to 
>>indicate gzip encoding (RFC 2616, section 3.5).
>
>I disagree. When you write the internet-draft, ONLY specify the CRI 
>header. X- headers should only be used for doing experiments before you 
>write the internet-draft. As soon as you enter the ietf-space, stick to 
>the real name. x-gzip was specified to handle backward compatibility 
>because there was considerable history with its use prior to the RFCs 
>being written. You don't have that problem here -- there is no history of 
>previous uses of X-CRI that needs to be supported.

The question is what do we do during the standards process until the RFC is 
approved, do we use "X-" or the regular headers?

Yakov  

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