Re: IANA SMTP registry

> 4. The keywords VERB and ONEX have "Eric Allman" listed as a reference, but
> I have no idea how to dereference it (yes, I know who Allman is and I can
> scrounge up his email address, but isn't the spirit of this to be able to
> have a publicly available specification, more specifically, an RFC?)
why are they listed at all?  I thought SMTP extensions had to be either
standards-track or experimental with explicit IESG approval. 

Keith