An Internet Message Header For Providing Hackerspace Affiliation InformationUniversity of AberdeenSchool of EngineeringKings CollegeAberdeenAB24 3UEScotlandirl@fsfe.org
General
This memo presents a new Internet message header that allows the sender
of Internet messages to provide hackerspace affiliation
information to the recipients. Recipients of Internet messages can use
this header to look up the hackerspace affiliation of the sender
of the message.A hackerspace is a community-operated workspace where people with common interests, often in computers, machining, technology, science, digital art or electronic art, can meet, socialize and/or collaborate. Hackerspaces, like a lot of other Internet communities, perform a lot of their communication on Internet mailing lists. Some hackers may subscribe to the mailing lists of other hackerspaces, or communicate on Internet mailing lists for discussion between hackerspaces on a regional, national or global level. It can be helpful for hackers to identify to which hackerspace other hackers they are communicating with are affiliated. defines an Organization: header which contains "a short phrase describing the organization to which the sender belongs". notes that this header was never standardised for use in e-mail but only in USENET messages. Some MUAs still have implemented this header however.If the Organization: header were to be used, it would be more suitable for it to contain a reference to the sender's employer or school than the sender's hackerspace. The header's text is also unstructured and does not lean itself to being read by machines.This memo presents a new Internet message header that allows the sender of Internet messages to provide hackerspace affiliation information to the recipients of the message in a machine-readable format.The header's text is built from the name of the hackerspace and the URL of the hackerspace's home page as described below.
hackerspace = "Hackerspace" ":" SP space-name SP "<" space-url ">"
space-name = string
space-url = http_URL
http_URL is defined in .The Hackerspace: header MAY be added to Internet messages by those affiliated with a hackerspace. MUAs MAY optionally only add the header when sending messages to hackerspace-related recipients.A new entry is requested in the Permanent Message Header Field Names [TO BE REMOVED: This registry can be found at: http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/message-headers.xhtml] registry maintained by IANA. The header field name requested is "Hackerspace" and it is applicable to the protocol "mail".Privacy issues may arise as, being a header, most encryption schemes for Internet mail will not encrypt the text.When a message is recieved with a Hackerspace: header, it should not be implicitly trusted as it may have been incorrectly defined by the sender.Standard for interchange of USENET messagesAT&T Bell LaboratoriesCenter for Seismic StudiesCommon Internet Message HeadersStockholm University/KTHElectrum 230S-164 40 KistaSE+46 8 161667+46 8 7830829jpalme@dsv.su.seThis memo contains a table of commonly occurring headers in headings of e-mail messages. The document compiles information from other RFCs such as RFC 822, RFC 1036, RFC 1123, RFC 1327, RFC 1496, RFC 1521, RFC 1766, RFC 1806, RFC 1864 and RFC 1911. A few commonly occurring headers which are not defined in RFCs are also included. For each header, the memo gives a short description and a reference to the RFC in which the header is defined.Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1Department of Information and Computer ScienceUniversity of California, IrvineIrvineCA92697-3425+1(949)824-1715fielding@ics.uci.eduWorld Wide Web ConsortiumMIT Laboratory for Computer Science, NE43-356545 Technology SquareCambridgeMA02139+1(617)258-8682jg@w3.orgCompaq Computer CorporationWestern Research Laboratory250 University AvenuePalo AltoCA94305mogul@wrl.dec.comWorld Wide Web ConsortiumMIT Laboratory for Computer Science, NE43-356545 Technology SquareCambridgeMA02139+1(617)258-8682frystyk@w3.orgXerox CorporationMIT Laboratory for Computer Science, NE43-3563333 Coyote Hill RoadPalo AltoCA94034masinter@parc.xerox.comMicrosoft Corporation1 Microsoft WayRedmondWA98052paulle@microsoft.comWorld Wide Web ConsortiumMIT Laboratory for Computer Science, NE43-356545 Technology SquareCambridgeMA02139+1(617)258-8682timbl@w3.org
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level
protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information
systems. It is a generic, stateless, protocol which can be used for
many tasks beyond its use for hypertext, such as name servers and
distributed object management systems, through extension of its
request methods, error codes and headers . A feature of HTTP is
the typing and negotiation of data representation, allowing systems
to be built independently of the data being transferred.
HTTP has been in use by the World-Wide Web global information
initiative since 1990. This specification defines the protocol
referred to as "HTTP/1.1", and is an update to RFC 2068 .
The first of the following .muttrc statements will add a Hackerspace: header to outgoing mails showing an affiliation with 57North Hacklab and the second statement will unhide the Hackerspace: header when viewing emails in the mutt pager.
my_hdr Hackerspace: 57North Hacklab <http://57north.co/>
unignore hackerspace