Re: Oughtification of Section 5

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 12 2001 - 03:58:46 CST


In <B683AAF7.D247%planb@newsreaders.com> "J.B. Moreno" <planb@newsreaders.com> writes:

>On 1/11/01 8:59 AM, Charles Lindsey at <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:

>> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>>
>>
>>> Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>>> NOTE: The use of ".invalid" is to provide an aid to mail systems so that
>>>> addresses deliberately intended to be malformed can be identified and
>>>> delivery aborted. User agents MUST identify such addresses and require
>>>> the user to alter the address when attempting a personal email reply.
>>>> Injecting agents that have authentication information MAY choose to
>>>> enforce the From-content based on the poster's authenticated identity.
>>

>I agree with Russ on this, I'd drop both MUST and MAY down to something
>different -- "Since such addresses are undeliverable, user agents can, and
>should, immediately inform the user of that fact, without attempting to mail
>the message" and "Be warned that some injecting agents that use
>authentication may choose to replace the From-content based upon the
>authenticated identity".

>(if a MAY is required it should be where the duties and privileges of the
>Injecting-Agent are defined).

Noted. Your "and should" should probably be "Ought".

Anyone else want to play?

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