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Re: [apps-discuss] The acct: scheme question

William Mills <wmills@yahoo-inc.com> Mon, 02 July 2012 00:44 UTC

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Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:44:29 -0700
From: William Mills <wmills@yahoo-inc.com>
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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] The acct: scheme question
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----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>
> To: William Mills <wmills@yahoo-inc.com>
> Cc: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>; "apps-discuss@ietf.org" <apps-discuss@ietf.org>; Murray S. Kucherawy <msk@cloudmark.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2012 3:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] The acct: scheme question
> 
> On 7/1/12 9:38 AM, William Mills wrote:
>>  As susquepedalian as I frequently am, I would change 'discussants' 
> in
>>  section 2 to "working group".
> 
> Those discussions far predated any consideration at the IETF.
> 
>>  section 3 para 3 "It is not assumed that an entity will necessarily
>>  be able to interact with a user's account using any particular
>>  application protocol, such as email...", I understand this but email
>>  isn't a protocol, SMTP is for example.  Maybe change "email" 
> to SMTP
>>  there?
> 
> Sure.
> 
>>  Section 4.3:  '"@" domainpart' should be optional.  
> It's reasonable
>>  to think this might be used with local account identifiers that
>>  don/t/need have a domain.
> 
> Making the domain name of the service provider implicit seems
> ill-advised to me. What's the harm of including the domainpart?

I just think it's something that won't be needed in some cases.

> 
> Peter
> 
> -- 
> Peter Saint-Andre
> https://stpeter.im/
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