Re: I wanna write an RFC

[David Hedbor <david@hedbor.org>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> 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.

What about creating a new, improved standard instead? The X-Face thing 
is rather dated. A picture with a couple of bitplanes would be nice
for example. Also all implementations of x-face are buggy. A friend
made a version which worked as the description said it should, and it
naturally couldn't decompress any other x-face headers.

I really think it's a rather bad standard. :)

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