On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 03:02:25AM +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
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| I'd be interested in hearing about actual problems with case
| sensitive addresses seen now. I know that in the past, certain
| IBM-based MTAs and MUAs had a tendency to upcase everything in sight,
| but it's been many years since I've seen those in the wild.
A lot of people have pointed out that standards ossify on the Internet.
I've had a lot of people say to me that in standards development, you
have to get it right the first time because on the Net you only get one
chance.
I don't think that's true.
SPF will break a lot of things. But those things need to be broken.
Interoperability with servers written in 1988 is a nice-to-have, not a
must-have. We can't let old standards suffocate the new.