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Re: [ietf-smtp] Email standard revision

2020-02-18 16:42:25


--On Tuesday, February 18, 2020 14:34 -0800 Dave Crocker
<dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net> wrote:

...
On 2/18/2020 11:12 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
The difficulty I see
is that the language in RFC 2026 seems very clear to me: "no
known technical omissions with respect to the requirements
placed upon it" without an explicit IESG waiver for Proposed
Standards;

Since the goal for the effort described in the text I offered
is for full standard and not proposed, I have no idea what
your reference, here, pertains to.

Please read the rest of that sentence, which read...

 not even an exception procedure for Internet
Standard. 

Unless someone is going to argue that the omission of any
specific mention of Internet Standard in that discussion means
that known technical omissions are ok in full standards, I think
that is a bar to adoption of documents as full standards that
contain such defects.

The rest of the paragraph may or may not be useful, but the
above should answer the question of what the reference pertains
to.

best,
  john

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