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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 19:01:32 -0700
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From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
Subject: Re: Negotiated noncompliance
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At 8:28 PM -0400 8/16/00, Keith Moore wrote:
>I would like to register negative support for this suggestion.
>More details if we actually open the discussion.

I would like to see the discussion open. John's text comes from a 
discussion that he and Chris and I had in Pittsburgh. Basically, 
there is a great deal of dissent on this list for some of the 
prohibitions for servers in 821bis. It is clear that some server 
writers intend to ignore some of them, given that they are doing so 
now and do not want to break current functionality in their servers. 
However, without the prohibitions, the servers can say "anything 
goes" as soon as the client does something out of spec, including 
dropping the mail on the floor. The intent is to narrow the "anything 
goes" so that server implementors have guidance about where they 
really must prohibit and where they can make their own choices.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium