Re: [ietf-smtp] G.7.3 --- resolvable FQDNs

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Thu, 06 August 2020 01:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] G.7.3 --- resolvable FQDNs
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On 8/5/2020 5:44 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> I am watching the video, and slide 17: G.7.3 resolveable domain names.
> 
> I want to suggest that the *protocol* should describe:
>    1) what does it mean to resolve a domain name.

So you are suggesting that the smtp protocol specification should 
contain text that is redundant with the DNS specification, rather than 
merely cite it?



d/

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Dave Crocker
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