Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) to Draft Standard (4) (was: Lists and aliases)

Ned Freed wrote:

> keep the MUST for aliases but lose it for lists? I could 
> live with that too but it would probably force a recycle.

I'd opt for "better standard" instead of "better status"
if these choices are in conflict.  The 2821bis / 2822upd
procedure is somewhat odd, first John insisted on doing
this simultaneously, and I thought that's not necessary.

Now I think he was always right, but what we really do 
is out of sync:  Likely 2822upd will pull NO-WS-CTL, or
move it to its "obs" chapter.  

But the 2821bis in Last Call has a normative reference to
2822, not 2822upd, and so it inherits obscure NO-WS-CTL
not limited to (non-existing) domain literals, it also 
has cruft like DEL and horrors like NUL in a few places.

Originally (2005) John also proposed to do the revision
in a WG, I'm more and more convinced that he was right.

 Frank

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