Re: [Fed-Talk] PKI SIGNED E-MAIL
Re: [Fed-Talk] PKI SIGNED E-MAIL
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] PKI SIGNED E-MAIL
- From: "Miller, Timothy J." <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:59:02 +0000
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] PKI SIGNED E-MAIL
On 11/7/11 2:43 PM, "Walls, Bryan K. (MSFC-EO50)" <email@hidden>
wrote:
>I don't argue that Apple is wrong to enforce the RFP, but in this case
>the RFP is wrong. In practice no one thinks email@hidden and
>email@hidden are completely separate addresses. It could have gone
>that way, but it didn't. The RFP should be changed, but as far as I can
>tell no one considers that their job.
You'd likely get nowhere in the NWG because the semantics of the
local-part is entirely up to the endpoint. IOW, if *your* MTA wants to
bryan.walls the same as Bryan.Walls, it is free to do so. But someone
else with a compelling reason to treat them differently needs the same
freedom.
IETF doesn't function quite like other standards bodies. It's a
gentleman's agreement to do just enough to get "things" working at the
connections between networking domains; it is *not* a set of mandatory
specifications. Encoding case-sensitivity into the specification would
make a choice on the issue that doesn't need to be made (things work as it
stands) and therefore isn't IETF responsibility.
-- T
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