Re: [ietf-smtp] Email standard revision

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

Folks,

After some discussion with Barry, what seems to have been missing is a 
clear statement of needs and goals.  Many different approaches to 
revision are possible and reasonable.  So the reasons for choosing one 
needs to be clear.


Logic for a limited effort:


     The current, well-established, core specifications for email are at 
a lower standards level than what the (realistically) long-obsolete 
versions.  The goal is to (finally) establish the later versions as full 
standards (and, I assume, declare the earlier versions as obsolete.)

     Any substantive revision to the current specifications runs the 
risk -- actually the likelihood -- of resulting in the output being 
labeled at a /lower/ standards level than it current has, thereby 
exacerbating the original issue.

     Hence the revision effort needs to be constrained to altering only 
essential, /minor/ details.  A cleanup exercise, if you will.



Yes?

d/

-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net