Re: Intent to revive "expires" header fromdraft-ietf-mailext-new-fields-15

"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
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In <[email protected]> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:

>"Frank Ellermann" <[email protected]> writes:

>> Reviving "Expires" is already a long shot, renaming it is a
>> waste of everybody's time.  I just checked usefor-usepro-09,
>> it doesn't even mention "Expires".

>Of course not; usepro doesn't define header fields.  Header fields are
>defined in usefor.  From draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-11.txt:

Indeed, because Usepro does not specify any protocol action that has to be
taken when this header is encountered (and if it did, it would only be a
"MAY"). The Usefor draft tells you everything you need to know about it.

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