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For those that haven't seen it, "secret-token:" is an RFC. I've started using it at work.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8959

Note that the RFC's category is "informational", which doesn't give it as much weight as something that is "standards track". Usually the important RFCs are "standards track" though there are some "informational" RFCs that are also important.

From Wikipedia[1]:

> An informational RFC can be nearly anything from April 1 jokes to widely recognized essential RFCs like Domain Name System Structure and Delegation (RFC 1591). Some informational RFCs formed the FYI sub-series.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments#Informati...

An unencrypted version marker would be pretty useful, too. If anything is long-term, you can safely bet in that it'll need to evolve.

Fair, though usually a token like this is just an ID into a database table and doesn't itself contain any data.

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