It appears that all this headerology is aimed at automated archives. It's not
for the reader, since one can already put anything one wants in the body, and
it's not aimed at newsreaders or other clients, since there are too many of
them and not enough of us. OK?
- Let's leave the long-term, thorough, general solution to the IETF, etc.
If they come up with one, we can convert to it later.
Let's settle on something that works now.
- Let's use auxiliary headers, and not clutter up "real" headers. Clever
archive maintainers will use the blessed aux header if it exists and
check the real headers as a last resort.
- Let's keep it simple. There are too many flavors of instantiations to give
each its own aux header. There's no reason why one couldn't have
Other-Instantiation: http://www.foo.bar/faq/ "My WWW site"
Other-Instantiation: http://www.baz.bamf/faq/ "Left coast WWW site"
Other-Instantiation: ftp://ftp.foo.bar/pub/faq/ "FTP site for the WWWless"
...
If Henk, etc. want only a single URL to put in a database, they can take
the first.
Since the aux header name doesn't imply a particular flavor of
instantiation, it'd be nice to allow text following the URL as others have
discussed. I'd accept quotes, but not require them: the first URL is a
word, and the rest are chitchat. If the next line begins with whitespace,
it's a continuation line, just like RFC822.
I don't care what the aux header is called; "Other-Instantiation" is not
a serious proposal.
- This whole notion has exactly the same scope as the news.answers system,
so, when settled, it ought to be enshrined in the news.answers docs.
Cheers,
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