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Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 02 January 2020 17:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2020, Dave Crocker wrote:
> The current RFC has material that made sense to include in 1982. It arguably 
> should have been removed from RFC 2821, but in any event is clearly out of 
> scope now and that material is substantially out of step.

Agreed.  I do think there's a few things like STARTTLS that need to move 
into the mandatory core, but not many.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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