Re: [ietf-smtp] Curious, with this now being associated to emailcore, should list name change?

[Sam Varshavchik <[e-mail]>]

John C Klensin writes:

> I think this is probably a bad idea (or just short of nightmare)
> but I wonder whether if we created a registration tree for
> headers named
>      private.* :
> required registration of whatever came next, and then declared
> open season on the rest if that would make things better.  Or
> worse.
>
> E.g.
>     private.<antispam>.MyCOMPANY.MYSTUFF:
>     private.<antispam>.YourCOMPANY.YourStuff:
>     private.<trace>.YOURSTUFF:
>
> Noting (to my surprise, I had forgotten) that section 3.6.8 of
> RFC5322 allows any printable ASCII character other than SP or
> colon in field names.

Why not borrow the general idea from Java and Android, and just incorporate  
DNS itself into header names.

com.courier-mta.MYSTUFF: whatever

I can use any header that starts with my domain name, for whatever I want.

No need to maintain a registration service of any kind. DNS is the  
registration service. If you own the domain name, use any header that starts  
with it.