28 Aug
2012
28 Aug
'12
4:57 a.m.
Petri Lehtinen writes:
Daniel Holth wrote:
I don't know of a tool that doesn't reliably ignore extra fields, but I will put you down as being in favor of an X- fields paragraph:
Extensions (X- Fields) ::::::::::::::::::::::
Metadata files can contain fields that are not part of the specification, called *extensions*. These fields start with with `X-`.
See RFC 6648 for why such X-fields may not be a good idea:
But note that the RFC also says that the preferred solution to the problem that X-fields are intended to solve is an easily accessible name registry and a simple registration procedure. If Martin's "be prepared for a ten-year period to acceptance" is serious, what should be done about such a registry?