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Re: Last Call: draft-gennai-smime-cnipa-pec (Certified Electronic Mail) to Proposed Standard

2009-10-14 07:07:31

On Oct 14, 2009, at 1:59 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:

The IESG <iesg-secretary(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org> writes:

- 'Certified Electronic Mail '
  <draft-gennai-smime-cnipa-pec-05.txt> as a Proposed Standard

This documents appears to utilize several e-mail header fields:

X-Ricevuta
X-Riferimento-Message-ID
X-VerificaSicurezza
X-Trasporto

Is that a good idea?

The header field names are translated in Appendix A ("X-Notification",
"X-Reference-Message-ID", etc) but it is not clear if they are required
to be equivalent or not.

It's inappropriate for a standards-track document. 822 (but not 2822, as best I can tell) says that explicitly:

        none will have names beginning
                    with the string "X-


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb





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