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

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 07 August 2020 23:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] G.7.3 --- resolvable FQDNs
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Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> 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?

The explicit discussion was that in some non-Internet contexts, the domain
name is not from the DNS.  The discussion was that this (the citing of the
DNS specification, if you like, but actually there is more to it than that),
should go into an applicability statement.

I disagree: it should go into the base specification as a thing that software
should support.  The applicability statement should say "turn it on" when on
the Internet.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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