Re: I-D ACTION:draft-shafranovich-feedback-report-01.txt

In <[email protected]> "william(at)elan.net" <[email protected]> writes:

>On Wed, 25 May 2005, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:

>> Any particular reason why these fields were not included in the initial 
>> header registry? Sounds rather strange to me.

>3. If you don't want to register several dozen fields one-by-one then
>    it'd have to be proposal to modify header field registration system
>    and create special new subtype of header registry for "Prefix-x"
>    (which I'd still like to do but can't quite get to it).

I thought the whole idea of X-headers was that they would NOT be
registered, so that people can invent them ad hoc as needed (however, it
needs to be understood that they are primarily there for human
consumption).

So all the Original-* headers should really be X-Original-* headers.

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