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Re: [apps-discuss] Confused about draft-ietf-appsawg-mdn-3798bis-11.txt

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Thu, 04 August 2016 22:20 UTC

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--On Thursday, August 04, 2016 21:05 +0000 Shawn Steele
<Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Ok, new probably wasn't a great choice.  Updated anyway, and
> I'd rather it build off of the other more recent thinking
> rather than have the potential forked path.  It's way easier
> to support an A + B + C scenario than an A, maybe-B,
> sometimes-C, perhaps all three scenario.  
> 
> Additionally it would simplify the spec (and thus the
> implementation) if you can take SMTPUTF8 as a prerequisite,
> then you can get rid of the 7-bit and other compat stuff.

Completely agree, modulo working out a plan that doesn't
immediately make the vast majority of existing implementations
non-conformant... or a community decision that is the best way
to go anyway.  Just wanted to be sure we were talking about the
same thing, which we appear to be.

best,
   john

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