[17352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: INTERNIC Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri May 29 13:03:50 1998
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 12:20:17 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.org
In-Reply-To: <19980529115852.G24303@slam.internic.net>; from Mark Kosters <markk@internic.net> on Fri, May 29, 1998 at 11:58:52AM -0400
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 11:58:52AM -0400, Mark Kosters wrote:
> > - Why can't they tag their email in a machine-readable manner? Tacking on
> > a single -reliable- header (X-InterNIC-Data: or some such) which
> > contains machine-parsable information about the message would be a
> > godsend for people trying to build tracking schemes like this.
>
> I personally think that this header thing is a good idea. But, NSI mgmt needs
> to hear it from you. If you think there is a real need for this or any
> other ideas, please contact the head of customer programs - Chuck Gomes
> (chuckg@Internic.net).
I'm thinking maybe machine readbale bodies, using, I dunno... XML
tagging with a standardized, but extensible, DTD; you know, kinda like
MIME? :-)
This is, after all, fundamentally EDI type stuff.
Cheers,
-- jra
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