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From: barryleiba(_dot_)mailing(_dot_)lists(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
[mailto:barryleiba(_dot_)mailing(_dot_)lists(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com] On Behalf
Of Barry Leiba
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 11:40 AM
To: Murray S. Kucherawy
Cc: ietf-822(_at_)imc(_dot_)org; apps-discuss(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: FW: Comments on Malformed Message BCP draft
On reading all the comments about this, and thinking about it myself,
I'm of a very mixed mind.
First: I have no sympathy for the comments that we should fix this
stuff in 5322, and not in some "add-on". This is *not* "fixing"
anything. This is *not* saying that any of the "malformed" messages
are now valid. This is not changing anything at all in 5322. What
this is doing is acknowledging that senders often violate 5322, and
that those violations are *wrong*. What it adds is that it also
acknowledges the reality that, as Nathaniel and others have said, we
can't just throw those wrong messages away, and there's some value in
agreeing how to handle them. This document -- or its final version --
is an attempt to document that agreement.
Agents along the way -- MSAs, MTAs, MDAs, and MUAs -- will make their
guesses and fix-ups, and I do think it's in the best interest of
everyone for us to document less-harmful avenues to take, as well as
roads to hell. So I support this document for that reason.
[...]
Since it was about to expire, I've posted a -01 version of this draft. There
are no changes to the meat of it yet as the focus has been more about where
this fits rather than the details of what it should say, but rather the
abstract and intro now make clear the sentiments of Barry's second paragraph
above, which does indeed reflect my original intent for bringing the work in
the first place.