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Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis: closing the implicit MX issue

Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net> Tue, 15 April 2008 03:50 UTC

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Tony Hansen wrote:
>  From this viewpoint, running code wins.
> 
> I'm also swayed by the principle of "least surprise". 
...
> Last of all, I'm swayed by the discussions around RFC 974 and the DRUMS
> archive search 
...
> So the bottom line is that I see sufficient support for including AAAA
> lookups when implicit MX comes into play.

Wow.

Diligently thorough.  Carefully reasoned.  Historically solid.  (Running code 
that interoperated was what resolved a problem with checksum for the original 
TCP spec...)

Nice job, Tony!

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net
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