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

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Tue, 15 April 2008 04:59 UTC

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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:59:28 -0400
From: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis: closing the implicit MX issue
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Dave Crocker wrote:

> 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...)

and it completely ignored the entire purpose for updating 2821 - to keep 
it relevant.

I call foul.

Keith
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