On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 02:59:06PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
Folks,
I've sent in draft-crocker-email-arch-07 to the I-D folks.
The html version is at:
<http://bbiw.net/specifications/draft-crocker-email-arch-07.html>
After two years and six major revisions, this is the version that will be
submitted to the IESG for standardization.
If you have any final comments, please get them to me.
Looks pretty nice. Some very small stuff (against the -07 version on
ietf.org, which I would assume is the same):
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Change notes say that "Bounce" has been moved out of the MHS (diagram),
and so it is; but there is an MHS Actors subsection (2.2.2) for Bounce
Handler, implying that Bounce Handler is inside the MHS. This is
confusing.
2.3. Administrative Actors
Actors often will are associated with different organizations, each
omit "will"
4.1. Message Data
Delivery Status Notification (DSN):
A Delivery Status Notification (DSN) is a message that can be
generated by the MHS (MSA, MTA or MDA) and sent to the
RFC2821.MailFrom address. The mailbox for this is shown as
Bounces in Figure 5. It provides information about message
transit, such as transmission errors or successful delivery.
Quirk: the "It" that begins the last sentence appears to refer to the
bounce mailbox, which can be confusing. Better to say "The DSN".
Also in 4.1:
Message Disposition Notification (MDN):
A Message Disposition Notification (MDN) is a message that
provides information about user-level, Recipient-side message
processing, such as indicating that the message has been
displayed [RFC3798] or the form of content that can be
supported. [RFC3297] It can be generated by an rMUA and is
sent to the Disposition-Notification-To address(es). The
mailbox for this is shown as Disp in Figure 5. It
Dangling "It", dang it.
4.1.4. Identity References in a Message
This section ends with subsections for "List-ID" and "List-*" which are
not included in the table at the beginning of the section. Is this
intentional? Relatedly, "IP Address" appears in the table but has
no subsection.
5.3. Mailing Lists
RFC2822.TO, RFC2822.CC
Set by: original Originator
These usually contains the original list of Recipient
addresses.
"usually contain" (not contains)
5.4. Gateways
RFC2822.Sender
Set by: Originator Source or Mediator Source
This can retain the original value or can be set to a new
address
Punctuation: most subsections end with a period, this one doesn't.
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