Re: Last Call: draft-crocker-email-arch (Internet Mail Architecture) t

John C Klensin wrote:
>      from a RFC 5321/SMTP perspective, any Message
> Submission (RFC 4409) server clearly falls into Dave's Mediator
> category. 

Huh?  I don't see that at all.

How can something that defines the submission event "take delivery", which is 
one of the defining components of a Mediator?  MSA's do 'receive' the message 
from the MUA, but it ain't 'delivery'.
d/

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  Dave Crocker
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