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Re: towards a compromise

2004-04-21 10:35:52

Andrew Newton wrote:
The MARID identity will be both a 2821 identity and a 2822 identity in the following manner:

o Since interpretation of the identity is up to the receiver, the sender will not state the type of the identity. The sender will simply state the identity, and the receiver will judge it as 2821 or 2822 depending on need.


My concern with this specific point is that the sender really has no way of knowing what the receiver is going to do with the information. Therefore, in order for the sender's mail to go through, the sender has to make sure that both 2821 and 2822 identities are valid which imposes higher costs on the sender. For example, a forwarding service may only be interested in setting the 2821 identity correctly but ignore the 2822.

Yakov
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Yakov Shafranovich / asrg <at> shaftek.org
SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc. / research <at> solidmatrix.com
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