Re: Mailing List Last Call for 2822 update internet-draft

In <[email protected]> Alan Barrett <[email protected]> writes:

>The intent behind my suggested wording is to make it more clear to
>software vendors that the domain name on the right hand side of the
>message-id is allowed to be the vendor's domain name; that it doesn't
>have to be the domain name of the host that's running the software, and
>that inability to know the domain name of the host is not necessarily a
>problem.

There is indeed one well known vendor which does what you say, but I am not
sure whether it is a practice we want to encourage (that is not to say
that vendor is likely to be swayed by such non-encouragement).

Essentially, such vendors have to rely on generating a sufficiently long
random number for the id-left to make it astronomically improbable that a
clash will occur. We mght have some discussion as to whether we regard
that as a good method worthy of our blessing.

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