Dan Wing (dwing@cisco.com)
Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:19:36 -0700
Greg,
Thanks for forwarding this.
> The following ID announcement is for a revision to the MDN specification in
> preparation for Draft Standard. Please note: Many seemingly unimplemented
> dispositions and all disposition modifiers have been removed.
The ABNF in section 3.2.6 seems to still list the disposition modifiers.
> If someone
> can name TWO interoperable implementations of any of the deleted
> dispositions or disposition modifiers, I will be happy to add them
> back into the document.
>
> Note that the requirements for draft standard are explicit that
> all features
> and options need to have at least two, interoperable implementations. If
> they are still useful, the unimplemented dispositions deleted from this
> document may be standardized at a later date as an MDN extension.
>
> This document also adds an additional section for gateway advice. The
> previous document was silent about what to do when gatewaying a MDN request
> into a foreign network. Given that most email networks do not have a
> separate disposition-notification-to: recipient, that was a bit of an
> oversight.
Section 8.3 has a sentence which begins:
In other most email systems,
which should be corrected.
> Please review and send comments. It is my hope that we can quickly advance
> this to Draft Standard.
Section 3.2.2 and the 'Status of this memo' section both seem to be missing
some runoff commands to format the text correctly.
-d
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