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Re: [ietf-smtp] New Version Notification for draft-crocker-email-deliveredto-05.txt

2021-08-17 10:05:58
On 16 Aug 2021, at 6:30 pm, Dave Crocker <dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net> wrote:

Interestingly, the new, competing specification also uses addr-spec.

So apparently it is competing on description rather than substance.

I guess IPv4 should have been specified by writing down the header
format, but not the semantics of any of the values, which would not
be "substance".

The substance of "Delivered-To" is private use as a loop detection
sentinel.  The syntax is an implementation detail.  Elevating the
syntax and downplaying the semantics is not progress.

-- 
        Viktor.

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