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Re: Last Call: SMTP Service Extension for Content Negotiation to Proposed Standard

2002-07-09 02:44:34

ned(_dot_)freed(_at_)mrochek(_dot_)com
Negotiation can mean that A and B receive different messages, both stating
(in to/cc) that the other received the one they didn't. Sounds very fishy
to my ears.

This is nothing new; situations arise routinely where the header recipient
lists don't tell the full story about who did or did not get a message

Agreed. It's nothing new -- just more of a bad thing.

I suppose it's okay, though. If to/cc never were truly reliable, making
them even less reliable is no big deal. Even if it's the first time a
Proposed Standard does it.

or a
particular version of a message.

Hm? I know that some mailing lists do rather a lot of header field
rewriting and/or append a new signature.  Are there other examples?

The thing sounds as if it's 100% incompatible with S/MIME and other
signature mechansisms. Shouldn't that be mentioned in the draft's security
considerations section?
...
As for mentioning any of this in the security considerations section, I
have no problem with that.

Good. That's what I want.

--Arnt

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