Re: Chris Newman's comment on draft-ietf-sieve-notify

[Aaron Stone <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 12:18 +0000, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> Chris has posted the following comment during the IESG review:
> 
> >An issue with nomenclature that I recommend fixing.  This document uses
> >the term "importance" with a completely different meaning from the
> >"importance" header in the Header Registry.  Indeed, in this document,
> >the term "importance" has the same meaning as the "priority" header in
> >the mail headers registry and the "urgency" header in the XMPP registry.
> >I would prefer this used consistent terminology.  I recommend ":urgency"
> >or ":priority" instead of ":importance".  I understand the change would
> >be annoying this late in the process given the notify XMPP document has
> >to be updated as well, which is why I'm not making this a discuss issue.
> >But please consider this seriously.
> 
> Are people Ok with changing the tag name? Are there any implementations of the latest draft?
> 
> If there is no WG consensus to change the tag name, authors can update the tag description to use consistent terminology.
> 

I am comfortable with a change to either name. Matching the keyword and
terminology of both mail and xmpp should be a priority, IMHO. (If that
means a vote for ':urgency' then so it is :)

Aaron