On 06/Sep/10 01:12, John R. Levine wrote:
>> [about] the informative vs. normative dilemma.
>
> I don't see how we can say anything normative to MLM or MUA
> developers. That's not the business we're in.

Please forgive my ignorance on standardization issues.  But doesn't a 
simple piece of advice, such as <<if rejecting for ADSP reasons, 
please use some

   554 *ADSP*

kind of reply>>, require a normative status?  Of course none of those 
are legally enforced, they are just practices for making the Internet 
interoperable...

> We can certainly document what MLMs do, and describe what we have
> found to be effective

Possibly, the From-%-rewriting belongs there, as someone said some 
lists do that (which ones?)

> but I really don't think that there's any benefit to describing in
> this document hypothetical paper designs for anything, much less
> for large changes to MLMs for goals for which we have no consensus.
> (An experimental RFC for paper designs would still be fine.)

That "joint signatures" idea of mines presumably would have required 
an experimental I-D.  However, I don't think I'll write any further 
about it, since there's no apparent interest (why, is it so ugly?)

Thank you for your patience.
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