{
  "draft": "draft-ietf-appsawg-xdash-05",
  "doc_id": "RFC6648",
  "title": "Deprecating the \"X-\" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application Protocols",
  "authors": [
    "P. Saint-Andre",
    "D. Crocker",
    "M. Nottingham"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "13",
  "pub_status": "BEST CURRENT PRACTICE",
  "status": "BEST CURRENT PRACTICE",
  "source": "ART Area General Applications Working Group",
  "abstract": "Historically, designers and implementers of application protocols have often distinguished between standardized and unstandardized parameters by prefixing the names of unstandardized parameters with the string \"X-\" or similar constructs.  In practice, that convention causes more problems than it solves.  Therefore, this document deprecates the convention for newly defined parameters with textual (as opposed to numerical) names in application protocols.  This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.",
  "pub_date": "June 2012",
  "keywords": [],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC6648",
  "errata_url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc6648"
}