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Eric Rescorla <ekr.ietf@gmail.com> Mon, 28 September 2026 16:06 UTC

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On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 6:41 AM John Levine <johnl@ietf.email> wrote:

> It appears that Rob Wilton (rwilton) <rwilton@cisco.com> said:
> >
> >Such text still states the standard deployment that all mail operators
> use.  Of course, it also implicitly requires that any such MTA software
> deployed in such
> >scenarios must be able to support that (which from my read, I don't think
> folks are particularly objecting to).  But it also doesn't explicitly
> mandate that a MTA
> >must be configurable in an insecure way to be complaint with the RFC
> (which some folks are strongly opposed to).
>
> We know that's what people are objecting to. They want a breaking change
> to a
> spec that has been stable and backward compatible for 40 years.


This is not correct. Rather, we are asking for this document not to
incorporate a new normative requirement. This would leave the existing
normative requirements undisturbed.

-Ekr

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