Hi, >> o Clarified the target audience. > > The acronyms SMTPS, IMAPS, POPS, XMPPS, IRCS are not introduced > anywhere. While a few of these may in lower-case occur in > /etc/services files on some systems, I am not aware of any standard > protocol called SMTPS (I'll let others speak to the existence of > IMAPS, ...).
I agree they should be spelled out, and yes, they do not define protocols (strictly speaking, even HTTPS specifies only a binding of HTTP to TLS, though). But yes, point taken. In fact, the entire subsection could be simplified to giving the scenarios and saying which protocols are used in such cases. That would also address your second point: > Also it is I think inappropriate to suggest that MTA to MTA SMTP with > STARTTLS is in scope for the intended "strict" TLS profile of the > draft. For quite some time TLS with MTA to MTA SMTP will employ > opportunistic security, with authentication optional. > > So draft applies to MUA to MSA mail submission, not MTA to MTA mail > relaying. Ralph -- Ralph Holz I8 - Network Architectures and Services Technische Universität München http://www.net.in.tum.de/de/mitarbeiter/holz/ Phone +49.89.289.18010 PGP: A805 D19C E23E 6BBB E0C4 86DC 520E 0C83 69B0 03EF _______________________________________________ Uta mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/uta
