usefor-article-10 April 2003

6.19.1.  Usage of Injector-Info-parameters

   The purpose of these parameters is to enable the injecting agent to
   make assertions about the origin of the article, in fulfilment of its
   responsibilities towards the rest of the network as set out in
   section 8.2.  These assertions can then be utilized as follows:

   1. To enable the administrator of the injecting agent to respond to
      complaints and queries concerning the article. For this purpose,
      the parameters included SHOULD be sufficient to enable the
      administrator to identify its true origin (which parameters are
      best suited to this purpose will vary with the nature of the
      injecting site and of its relationship to the posters who use it -
      there is no benefit in including parameters which contribute
      nothing to this aim).  An administrator MAY, with those parameters
      where the syntax so allows, use cryptic notations interpretable
      only by himself if he considers it appropriate to protect the
      privacy of that origin.

   2. To enable relaying, serving and reading agents to recognize
      articles from origins which they might wish to reject, divert, or
      otherwise handle specially, for reasons of site policy.

   3. To enable the timely identification of spews of articles arising
      from a common origin.


   An injecting agent MUST NOT include any Injector-Info-parameter
   unless it has positive evidence of its correctness. An injecting
   agent MAY also include extension-parameters with x-attributes which
   will assist in identifying the origin of the article.

      NOTE: Administrators of injecting agents can choose which
      selection of the following parameters best enables them to fulfil
      their responsibilities.  Some of these parameters identify the
      source of the article explicitly whereas others do so indirectly,
      thus affording more privacy to posters who value their anonymity,
      but also making harder the tracking of malicious disruption of the
      network, especially so if the administrators choose not to
      cooperate.  There is thus a balance to be struck between the needs
      of privacy on the one hand and the good order of Usenet on the
      other, and administrators need to be aware of this when
      formulating their policies.

--- ../usefor-article-09/Usage_of_Injector-Info-parameters.out          February 2003
+++ ../usefor-article-10/Usage_of_Injector-Info-parameters.out          April 2003
@@ -24,9 +24,10 @@
    3. To enable the timely identification of spews of articles arising
       from a common origin.
 
+
    An injecting agent MUST NOT include any Injector-Info-parameter
    unless it has positive evidence of its correctness. An injecting
-   agent MAY include extension-parameters with x-token attributes which
+   agent MAY also include extension-parameters with x-attributes which
    will assist in identifying the origin of the article.
 
       NOTE: Administrators of injecting agents can choose which