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Re: Negotiated noncompliance

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> Thu, 24 August 2000 05:00 UTC

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D J Bernstein <djb@cr.yp.to> writes:

> I don't know whether the next version of smtpupd is going to be aligned
> with the RFC 1123 definition. I haven't seen a clear statement from the
> editor on this topic.

I believe that the last summary I saw from the chair said that the
standard definitions were being imported into the document and then the
usage of SHOULD, MUST, and MAY will be reviewed to make sure they still
make sense.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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