Poor choice of terminology. Why not “Deprecated-After” or something actually descriptive.
“Sunset” is marketing speak.
RFC 8594: The Sunset HTTP Header Field (2019)
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Re: RFC 8594: The Sunset HTTP Header Field (2019)
#12Poor choice of terminology. Why not “Deprecated-After” or something actually descriptive. “Sunset” is marketing speak.
It is legal, rather than marketing, speak. "Sunset clause" has been widely-used legal jargon for a good half century at this point, possibly longer.
Re: RFC 8594: The Sunset HTTP Header Field (2019)
#13Poor choice of terminology. Why not “Deprecated-After” or something actually descriptive. “Sunset” is marketing speak.
It is legal, rather than marketing, speak. "Sunset clause" has been widely-used legal jargon for a good half century at this point, possibly longer.
The actual contracts don’t typically say “Sunset clause” or use “sunset”.