Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contiibution to moving forward with RFC5321bis SMTP
John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Fri, 27 December 2019 17:08 UTC
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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contiibution to moving forward with RFC5321bis SMTP
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Ok, I have revised the working draft to include additional issues suggested by on and off-list notes. Several of those identified issues already called out in -02 either by the errata or by the inline CREF notes. As a result of the latter, I'd added an additional subsection to the new appendix that is essentially an index to the inline CREF notes that I consider substantive (it doesn't list all of them and YMMD about what is or is not substantive). While I hope it will be useful, it turned out to be a lot of work, leading to: _Grumpy editor's note_ (those who find it amusing can parse that either way - the ambiguity is intentional) As most of you have probably deduced by now, I'm very busy and have little time for IETF work. I'm willing to do this editing job because I think it is important and overdue, but it isn't going to happen unless it is a group effort. This means that, while I'm willing to add items to a list of topics to be discussed, nothing that I believe has any substantive impact is going into the body text of the document unless there is either consensus that is rather clear to me (and I never count silence as support for a position) or some WG Chair or AD tells me that they see consensus and I should make the change. That, in turn, implies that I'm going to get increasingly impatient with suggestions for additions or changes the document has already listed or covered, strongly implying that those making those suggestions have not read the draft (or at least the current version). My expectation is that people will actually read before commenting. I also expect that, if I prepare a message explaining changes that people will read that. For those people who don't like my long messages, I'm happy to have a volunteer to prepare a summary short enough to avoid TL;DR comments, but that still won't save people reading the drafts themselves. I promise in return that I won't make non-trivial changes without documenting them so that a diff from a prior, carefully-read, version plus my notes should be sufficient to keep track of what is happening without reading all 100+ pages every time. Another warning about my likely reactions both personally and as editor. It is generally believed that a small number of providers (certainly under a dozen) are carrying or handling a very large fraction of Internet mail traffic as measured by either message count or total byte count. I have no reason to doubt that belief although, especially given all of the spam-originating systems and bots and the mail service providers in places like China and India who rarely show up on those lists but carry a lot of traffic, I'm occasionally suspicious about the numbers quoted. However, there are also many thousands of systems out there that are able to act as SMTP senders and/or receivers, even after excluding spam generators and academic and enterprise servers that have been outsourced to those big providers. When one adds in IoT and IIoT systems that generate or process email, that is probably tens or hundreds of systems, at least before we start quibbling about what is an SMTP system and what is a Submission one. When someone says "NN% of mail does X or uses Y", with NN large, we should pay attention to that but it should not be sufficient for making changes in what the standard requires. It might, instead, be a good reason to better explain why the standard says what it does even if those providers choose to not conform. And whether that explanation should make it into 5321bis or some supplemental A/S or BCP is another, separate, question. If, instead, we conclude that whatever that handful (or two) of providers do is really the standard, then there is little point in revising 5321 and, perhaps instead, we should take the IETF out of the business of specifying some or all email standards and encourage those providers to form a consortium to publish a specification of what they are doing so that everyone else can get in line. Grump! john In addition, I hope everyone is aware that experience predicts that every topic-level issue that is added to the "perhaps should be covered in 5321bis" list lowers the odds that we will actually converge before enough people run out of energy to have the remainder represent additional consensus.
- [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving forwa… John C Klensin
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… John C Klensin
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… John C Klensin
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… John C Klensin
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Jeremy Harris
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Alessandro Vesely
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contiibution to moving f… John C Klensin
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contiibution to moving f… Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contiibution to moving f… John C Klensin
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… John C Klensin
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… S Moonesamy
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Barry Leiba
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… John Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… John Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… John R Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Laura Atkins
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Laura Atkins
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Laura Atkins
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals John Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Hector Santos
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Dave Crocker
- [ietf-smtp] It's not about IP-Literals, its about… Hector Santos
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals John C Klensin
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals John R Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Jeremy Harris
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals John R Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals John R Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… John Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] SMTP client certs John Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals John Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Richard Clayton
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… John Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals John R Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals John Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals John Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Alessandro Vesely
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Hector Santos
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Hector Santos
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Hector Santos
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Hector Santos
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals John R Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Hector Santos
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… John C Klensin
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Arnt Gulbrandsen
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… John C Klensin
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… John Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… John Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible contribution to moving f… Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Ned Freed
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Ned Freed
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Keith Moore
- [ietf-smtp] lounging around Dave Crocker
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals John R Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Possible cont4ibution to moving f… Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] lounging around John Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on submission auth… John Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] lounging around John Levine
- Re: [ietf-smtp] lounging around Keith Moore
- Re: [ietf-smtp] lounging around Dave Crocker