[Ltru] Re: Registry change of the day: prefix with more than one subtag

"Doug Ewell" <dewell@roadrunner.com> Sat, 14 July 2007 21:47 UTC

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Subject: [Ltru] Re: Registry change of the day: prefix with more than one subtag
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Randy Presuhn <randy underscore presuhn at mindspring dot com> wrote:

>> I believe that we should handle this case under the general rule 
>> "standards cannot prevent every stupid thing":
>> ...
>> There does not seem to be similar text in 4646bis. Do we think it 
>> should be included or is it too paternalistic for readers?
>
> Since the question seems to keep coming up, it's probably worth 
> including. For a heading for the section, I like your words: 
> "standards cannot prevent every stupid thing."

My question was what a piece of software should do.  Software is 
notoriously bad at applying wisdom to situations like this.

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