RE: IESG Review: draft-ietf-fax-esmtp-conneg-10.txt

["Scott Hollenbeck" <sah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The feedback from the IESG continues to lack this specificity: Quite
> simply we do not have any way of knowing _exactly_ what will satisfy
> the them.

I can clear up that bit of confusion. Ted has said that he'd like to see an
applicability statement in the document.  As described by Claudio:

> I would suggest an applicability statement, which uses ifax 
> as one of the 
> examples, but also points out the other ones, but indeed is 
> built upon the 
> generic case considerations, i.e.:
> 
>     - the mechanism requires that no "transformations"
>       (gateways, security checks, ...) are in between the negotiating
>       parties;
>     - the store/forward limits the applicability, and list the cases
>     - ...
> 
> This will also likely avoid furhter doubts for implementers, and 
> nevertheless let CONNEG be of good use for the whole e-mail system.

That's it.  As I see it, we're talking about a subsection, maybe in the
intro, with a few new paragraphs.

-Scott-