Re: [EAI] Shepherd report review of mailinglist-02

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Fri, 13 July 2012 17:27 UTC

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On 13/07/2012 16:34, John R Levine wrote:
>> I believe the rule is that anything mentioned in the document that is 
>> not defined in it needs to be referenced.
>
> My. there's a can of worms.

It can be.

> We don't reference RFC 6531 for SMTPUTF8, 6532 for non-ASCII headers, 
> 5322 for the From, Reply-To, and Sender headers, 5598 for MTA, MDA, 
> and MUA, or 20 for ASCII.
>
> RFC 3986, which we do reference, describes all of the URI schemes that 
> we mention.

Well, no. It describes the generic syntax. But if one wants to study 
mailto: definition in more details, there is no reference.

> It probably would be a good idea to reference 6531 and 6532, though.

Yes. And ASCII, because it is kind of required to understand "non-ASCII" 
;-).