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Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis: closing the implicit MX issue

2008-04-14 22:00:02


Dave Crocker wrote:

Tony Hansen wrote:
 From this viewpoint, running code wins.

I'm also swayed by the principle of "least surprise". 
...
Last of all, I'm swayed by the discussions around RFC 974 and the DRUMS
archive search 
...
So the bottom line is that I see sufficient support for including AAAA
lookups when implicit MX comes into play.

Wow.

Diligently thorough.  Carefully reasoned.  Historically solid.  (Running 
code that interoperated was what resolved a problem with checksum for 
the original TCP spec...)

and it completely ignored the entire purpose for updating 2821 - to keep 
it relevant.

I call foul.

Keith
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