message references

[Jon L White <jonl@lucid.com>]

re: . . . messages about an inconsequential topic like what
    the in-reply-to field of the message headers says ...

I believe you've misunderstood something; the commentary about the
"References" section is not about "message headers" or anything
having to do with mail sytem protocols.  

Rather, it is about the content of the section of Cleanup Proposals 
called "References".  Since these proposals are discussed at the
X3J13 meetings, and by persons who have no access to electronic
mail, then I'd hope the are in human-readable format, rather than
"encrypted" message-ID's.

See the form you passed out at the Fort Collins X3J13 meeting called
"Format for proposals to the cleanup committee (Version 13).


-- JonL --