On 7/8/2013 12:00 PM, Carl S. Gutekunst wrote:
Dave Crocker was just wondering if anyone knew what was the standards
basis for ICANN's statement (since RFC 5321 allows them).
In other words, it appears ICANN is saying what we'd want them to say.
Not really.
In terms of the conclusion, "dotless domains won't work over the open
Internet", yes that's correct.
In terms of the technical explanation that is provided, they are wrong.
They attribute it to SMTP. Whether they mean the specific protocol or
the collection of email specifications, they are wrong.
If they meant to include "implementation issues", I think they are being
overly broad in language, for a body of technical experts.
And SSAC really is a body of technical experts. So I expect technical
rigor, for whatever level of granularity the choose to assert, shy of
"anything that has anything to do with email on the Internet." So when
they say SMTP, they ought to mean the specific protocol, or the
collection of email protocol specifications.
They should not mean "whatever pragmatic operational cruft the real
world happens to have chosen to add to the email protocols,
/sometimes/." That last is what's actually going on.
And while that cruft is understandable and justifiable, it is still
outside any documented standards.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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