> > Rainer has proposed adding "metadata" as a field in the protocol > > (formerly called "cookies") > > I count this as a vote for the term "metadata" and will > assume this issue is solved when nobody objects it ;)
Meta-data is ok, although I would have preferred referring to these as just "tags" since this part of the message is not necessarily going to be "data about data". It could be just a well-structured part of the entire message and may carry data no different then the rest of the message other than formatting. If you go with meta-data, please note that the correct spelling is with a hyphen. The word "Metadata" (one word and with no hyphen) appears to be trademarked. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=metadata Anton.
