RFC: locking-design.txt, On non-locking policies

Someone on IRC, don't recall whom, recently asked me to voice this
request on dev, and I thought this addition to locking-design.txt
describe my wishes best.

Index: locking-design.txt
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--- locking-design.txt (revision 10680)
+++ locking-design.txt (working copy)
@@ -111,6 +111,12 @@
         be modified by the client. This is a repository policy,
         not a user decision. -- brane]
 
+ Mark certain files/paths with a special svn: property which
+ means "this file cannot be locked." Files with this property
+ cannot be locked and any attemps to 'svn lock' fails with:
+ "Repository policy prevents locking this file." Suggest this
+ be a read-only liveprop whose value is implied by server-side
+ configuration, and can't be modified by the client.
 
 Weird scenarios with lock-tokens/working-copies:

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