Re: I-D ACTION:draft-arun-ncc-smtp-02.txt

Hi Keith,

It is definately backward compatiable as there is a Extended SMTP header 
(NCC) that also needs to be in place for the NCC processing to proceed.

Keith Moore wrote:

>>On Tue April 5 2005 15:30, [email protected] wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>>>
>>>
>>>	Title		: Ncc in Mail Header
>>>	Author(s)	: A. Sankar
>>>	Filename	: draft-arun-ncc-smtp-02.txt
>>>	Pages		: 4
>>>	Date		: 2005-4-5
>>>	
>>>This draft presents a mechanism to simplify one of the cumbersome 
>>>aspects of mailing, when one needs to send mails only to a subset of 
>>>mail-ids from an alias [ALIAS] . The basic intention is only to minimize 
>>>the complication and difficulty of a mail user when a mail needs to be 
>>>sent to n - m mail IDs i.e. send it to a group Id of n and exclude m
>>>from the alias [ALIAS] list.
>>>
>>>A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>>>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-arun-ncc-smtp-02.txt
>>>      
>>>
>>As the draft lacks any indication of where discussion should take
>>place, I'm sending these comments to the author and the IETF discussion
>>list, with informational copies to the ietf-822 and ietf-smtp lists.
>>    
>>
>
>All of your comments miss the most important points - namely that this
>proposal breaks layering and it isn't backward compatible with the 
>installed base.    For those reasons alone there's no way that this
>proposal should be seriously considered.
>
>Keith
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Arun

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