[iaufwg] approval of the 'FOREIGN' extension convention

[Doug Tody]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, William Pence wrote:
> Eric Greisen made a good suggestion to me off line that we provide a
> mechanism for adding comments or queries about a convention in the
> Registry.  Future users of the convention could also add more comments
> about how they have interpreted the convention should be used.   A
> simple way to do this is to just add an HTML link to a page titled
> "Further comments about the convention".  In the case of the FOREIGN
> convention, this page could contain a copy of all the IAUFWG email
> discussions about the convention.

This sounds like a good idea, particularly if there were some way
to automate the process.  For example, messages including a certain
keyword, or which reply to a certain thread set up for review comments,
would automatically be linked to the extension.  I just hate to see anyone
have to maintain such a thing manually.  It could probably be done with
procmail and hypermail, for example.

 	- Doug