Re: TLS vs STARTTLS

-----Original Message-----
From: John Gardiner Myers <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 1:14 PM


>Gaah, hadn't noticed that.  Having the extension be "TLS" in SMTP, but
>be "STARTTLS" in IMAP and ACAP seems like a bad thing to me.  Would it
>be reasonable to change the SMTP extension to "STARTTLS" at this late
>time?


I don't think it would be reasonable, since we're already shipping Exchange
5.5 with TLS advertised in the EHLO response.  In general I agree that that
it would be nice to (1) have the capability keyword and the protocol command
share a name and (2) have similar capabilities across protocols share a
name.  However, I don't think it's that big a deal if these criteria aren't
met.  I say keep it advertised as TLS.

-- jeff