Re: [apps-discuss] Adoption of draft-kucherawy-received-state?

[Ned Freed <[e-mail]>]

> >While I am unaware of any standards usage of this particular extensibility
> >feature, ever since it was defined there has been some ad-hoc use of it. I have
> >not observed any issues with this usage. To the extent there have been
> >problems, it's been with obsolete forms that have never worked well and jsut a
> >general failure to implement basic stuff like date-time parsing propoerly.

> I've written my share of received header parsers (it's unavoidable if
> you want to send a non-trivial number of abuse reports) and I will
> agree that extra clauses are not an issue.  The problem, as usual, is
> people who don't read the spec at all before they start coding, and
> there's not much we can do about that.

Exactly. And given eixsting use of nonstandard clauses any parser that fails to
handle them is not materially different from one that fails to handle other
syntax details.

I completely fail to see why we should be catering to this level of brokennness
at this late date.

					Ned