From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 06:08:34 CDT
In <Pine.BSI.3.91.1020604173253.25573A-100000@spsystems.net> Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:
>> It says:
>> the From-content SHOULD then be an address which ends in the top
>> level domain of ".invalid" [RFC 2606].
>> If it ends in .invalid, it isn't an address...
>How so? The draft does not define "address", but the very same paragraph
>you are quoting from (and the ones around it) clearly make a distinction
>between an "address" and a "valid address". In fact, only a few lines
>down we have the note:
> ...Whether or not
> a valid address can subsequently be extracted from such an
> address falls outside the scope of this standard (though it
> would be pointless to use a disguise so easily penetrable).
>I see nothing here that specifically requires changing, although the
>chance of other careless readers making the same mistake might perhaps be
>reduced with small wording improvements.
OK, it now says
... Whether or not
a valid address can subsequently be extracted from such an
address falls outside the scope of this standard (obviously,
posters wishing to disguise their address need to do more than
just add ".invalid" to it).
>> If you want to redefine the Sender header to be inserted anytime the
>> injecting agent "cannot determine sameness", then be honest and do so in
>> that section. Don't hide it as a sub-thought somewhere else.
>I think you are reading too much into an unintentional quirk of wording,
>but this could probably do with fixing up (presumably by inserting some
>"to the best of the implementation's ability" wording into Sender).
I don't think such wording would fit into 6.2 (Sender), but 8.2.2 covers
it, and 8.2.2 is now cross-referenced from the wording that John does not
like in 5.2.
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