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[Erik Ostrom <eostrom@research.att.com>]

i think the key point in vijay's message is:
>This is not a complex protocol, time is of the essence, lets get
>it out!

yes.  as far as i'm concerned, all of the current debate shouldn't
stop us from moving toward a final version.  i think the next step is
still to post the spec (well, a pointer to it) to moo-cows, with open
issues left open; i think dave was planning to do that today, and i
think that's still a good plan.

incidentally, i also suspect that the discussion of multiline field
data tags will never be resolved to everyone's satisfaction, and we
should think about how to break the deadlock.  i'm content with "let
dave make the final decision", personally, but if we're going to do
something more complicated let's figure it out soon.

--erik