Re: [yam] [Imap-protocol] draft-daboo-srv-email: POP3S/IMAPS?

Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> Sun, 17 January 2010 22:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [yam] [Imap-protocol] draft-daboo-srv-email: POP3S/IMAPS?
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> Feel free to suggest wording for an informational section discouraging 
> imaps/pop3s/smtps.

I would argue that since neither of imaps and pops are internet standards, 
normative text about them is out of scope for a standards track document, 
therefore all references to them should be deleted.

--lyndon