Re: draft-hoffman-rfc2487bis-03.txt

[Eric Rescorla <ekr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bodo Moeller <moeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 03:43:21PM +0200, Lutz Jaenicke wrote:
> 
> > [Section 5]:
> >    After receiving a 220 response to a STARTTLS command, the client
> >    SHOULD start the TLS negotiation before giving any other SMTP
> >    commands.
> > 
> > I would prefer MUST here instead of SHOULD.
> 
> So would I, and I said so one year ago when the previous revision of
> the draft was being discussed on this mailing list (or possibly on
> ietf-tls).  Paul commented that the client should have the possibility
> to send a clear "QUIT" command instead of starting a handshake.
Thirded.

-Ekr

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[Eric Rescorla                                   ekr@xxxxxxxx]