Pete Resnick wrote:
- I *do* want this document to be used as a club against proposed protocols,
...
I want to be able to say, "Look dude! That's not what RFC5321.MailFrom is for. Go read the bloody architecture and get your mind right, or give me a long interesting explanation about how the state of the world you live in is different than what the architecture says and convince me that your use is reasonable."
Yup.
The architecture will develop, it will be refined over time, and it ought to be prescriptive for how to write an interoperable protocol in the land of email. That sounds to me like a standards-track document.
Yup.
That's OK. We like rough edges.
Yup.
That's what I'm hoping that intro expresses.
drum roll. Exactly! d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net
