Hi Hector,
John's got my support and Tony's to reject new capabilities,
extensions, etc in this round of changes, and he's not enforcing that
preferentially. In fact there's strong process pressure to reject
any additions in order to achieve the status of Draft Standard, so
these are IETF rules, not John's rules.
Do you disagree with John on the basis that your proposed change is
too important to be put off ? or that it's not a new capability but
merely a clarification?
If it's a new feature, please do consider writing up SMTP extension
proposals in I-D form -- the fact that John's working on 2821bis
should not prevent people from working on useful extensions. The two
efforts can and should be separated as far as we can tell.
Lisa
On Apr 10, 2007, at 7:04 AM, Hector Santos wrote:
You might be able to overcome some of these difficulties in an
extension, but it certainly does not belong in the base spec.
I disagree but I defer to your rules. Thats too bad because I can't
help but feel if someone else would had brought this up, you would
take a more open minded consideration. I am sorry to say that only
because I find it extremely odd that technical clarity in this case
is not taken serious when in reality the less serious nits are
being debated else where. The odds are very good systems you will
be confronted with this ISSUE more so than some of the other issues
that essentially have little to no impact in improving the system.