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Re: Negotiated noncompliance

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Thu, 17 August 2000 13:19 UTC

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From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
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Eliot's text is a lot closer to what I think.  

However, using MAY may be too strong - it implies that behavior which 
an SMTP engages in to accomodate a broken peer is within the scope of
the standard.    It might be better to say that if an implementation 
deviates from the SMTP spec in an attempt to accomodate another 
implementation which deviates from the SMTP spec, such behavior is 
outside of the scope of the standard.  So an implementation which
does this is not immediately nonconforming, but neither is such 
behavior blessed.

still, this whole idea makes me nervous.  I'll say more if I
can articulate my concerns.

Keith

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