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Subject: I wanna write an RFC
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No particular reason, really -- I just want to.

One thing that I think is severly underdocumented is the X-Face
header.  It's now getting a bit long in the tooth, and I think ten
years is way to long for an "X-" header to survive, so I want to write 
an RFC that would, like, standardize it and stuff.  "Face" is a nice
header name, isn't it?

Anyway, I just wanted to know whether anyone knows of any previous
attempts to formalize this header.  I've done Metacrawler, and I can't 
really find anything at all about the format.  I have the source to
un/compface (from '90; written by James Ashton), but that's it.

-- 
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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen