[yam] [Errata Rejected] RFC6152 (5646)

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Subject: [yam] [Errata Rejected] RFC6152 (5646)
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The following errata report has been rejected for RFC6152,
"SMTP Service Extension for 8-bit MIME Transport".

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You may review the report below and at:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5646

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Status: Rejected
Type: Technical

Reported by: HE Zhixiang <af13@protonmail.com>
Date Reported: 2019-03-04
Rejected by: Barry Leiba (IESG)

Section: 3

Original Text
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Naturally, the usual SMTP data-stuffing algorithm applies, so that a
content that contains the five-character sequence of
<CR> <LF> <DOT> <CR> <LF>
or a content that begins with the three-character sequence of
<DOT> <CR> <LF>
does not prematurely terminate the transfer of the content.

Corrected Text
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Naturally, the usual SMTP data-stuffing algorithm applies, so that a
content that contains the five-character sequence of
<CR> <LF> <DOT> <CR> <LF>
or a content that begins with the three-character sequence of
<DOT> <CR> <LF>
would prematurely terminate the transfer of the content.

Notes
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RFC 5321, section 4.5.2: 
Without some provision for data transparency, the character sequence "<CRLF>.<CRLF>" ends the mail text and cannot be sent by the user.
 --VERIFIER NOTES-- 
   The text is referring to original, unprocessed text, and is saying that the example strings will "naturally" have "the usual SMTP data stuffing algorithm" applied to them.  As a result, the existence of these strings in the original data will not terminate the transfer because they will be data-stuffed and will no longer appear as termination strings.

The text is correct as written, and the suggested rewrite incorrectly negates the meaning.

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RFC6152 (draft-ietf-yam-rfc1652bis-03)
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Title               : SMTP Service Extension for 8-bit MIME Transport
Publication Date    : March 2011
Author(s)           : J. Klensin, N. Freed, M. Rose, D. Crocker, Ed.
Category            : INTERNET STANDARD
Source              : Yet Another Mail
Area                : Applications
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG