----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Farrell" <stephen.farrell@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Loa Anderson" <loa@xxxxx> Cc: "ietf" <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 1:23 PM > > On 02/10/14 12:53, Loa Anderson wrote: > > Can someone tell me what is broken? > > IETF participant inability to refrain from commenting > on even the silliest proposals? but it is a nice exemplar of the point that incorporating structure in an identifier is almost always a bad idea, as the structure does not persist for very long. An identifier should be an identifier, easy to use, to read and write and to enter into some store of information where the details can be found. Tom Petch > > S > >