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Re: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-malformed-mail-02.txt

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <msk@cloudmark.com> Sat, 19 May 2012 08:49 UTC

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> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories. This draft is a work item of the Applications Area Working
> Group Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> 	Title           : Advice for Safe Handling of Malformed Messages
> 	Author(s)       : Murray S. Kucherawy
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-appsawg-malformed-mail-02.txt
> 	Pages           : 16
> 	Date            : 2012-05-19
> 
>    The email ecosystem has long had a very permissive set of common
>    processing rules in place, despite increasingly rigid standards
>    governing its components, ostensibly to improve the user experience.
>    The handling of these come at some cost, and various components are
>    faced with decisions about whether or not to permit non-conforming
>    messages to continue toward their destinations unaltered, adjust them
>    to conform (possibly at the cost of losing some of the original
>    message), or outright rejecting them.
> [...]

Trying to breathe life back into this work...

This version incorporates a lot of feedback I received off-list.  Contributors acknowledged accordingly!

I've also changed the document's state to Informational from BCP, now that I understand how we use the latter term here.  However, it uses normative language to provide its advice, so I'm wondering if this would qualify as an applicability statement regarding email, meaning it should aim for Standards Track, or if instead I should avoid use of RFC2119 language and make leave it Informational.

Comments welcome.

-MSK

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