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Re: [EAI] keyword announcement for 'UTF8SMTPbis'

John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com> Tue, 06 December 2011 13:15 UTC

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Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:15:13 -0500
From: John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>
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--On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 13:48 +0100 Arnt Gulbrandsen
<arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> wrote:

> This unfortunate acronym could have been avoided by learning
> from the SASL/GSSAPI WG that wisely adopted
> base16(md5(<whatever>)) for capability names.

I hope you are joking.

If not, would you really propose using a hash for an SMTP
extension keyword given that:

	* All existing keywords are short enough to be spelled
	out and often pronounced
	
	* The keywords interact with SMTP line-length limits
	
	* These strings are seen and talked about by system
	support people at least and often with end users.

john

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