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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>This extension
specifies a small number of fields with trivial data formatting
requirements. If you or anyone else can find a preexisting
vocabulary or specification that meets these needs, we'd be glad to hear
about it.</font></blockquote><br>
For me the point is a little different. It is first of all about
the specification of the fields that are needed.<br><br>
If there is some bloated and mostly inappropriate standard out there,
which is in widespread use and built into common applications, and which
has already specified the fields needed for registration, it's our civic
duty to try to use those specifications for the fields in a new
registration protocol. <br><br>
To do anything else, i feel, requires a very, very strong
reason.<br><br>
To choose instead something that is cleaner and prettier and a little
easier to deal with is to work against interoperability; it is to make
our life easier and more fun at the cost of a lot more work for our
fellow programmers for a long time.<br><br>
(No offense intended. Just trying to make my point the way i feel
it.)<br><br>
Cordially, Joaquin<br><br>
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