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"Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail.com> writes:

> A whitelist solves issue (1) but is no help for issue (2) unless some
> additional additional part of the refs namespace were to be also
> whitelisted.  Perhaps something like refs/x-<anything>/... in the same
> vein as the various IETF standards for experimental names.

Your (2) is about people who are _experimenting_, no?

Why can't they use refs/notes/x-<anything>/* while doing so, and
when that matures and proves useful to wider public we can make it
more official by whitelisting refs/<that-thing> in addition to
refs/notes/, and the problem is solved, no?