Re: Is RFC5322 a 'protocol'?

On 01/06/2014 11:28 AM, Dave Crocker wrote:
> New year.  New time for abstract queries...
>
>
> In spite of its title, I believe the *22 series of documents might 
> qualify as a protocol, rather than "merely" as an object format 
> specification.

Ok.   But I'm curious - why does it matter?   It's not like these terms 
are used consistently or with precision, anyway.  And somehow email has 
managed to work reasonably well (except for spam and spam 
countermeasures) for well over 30 years without this being a settled 
question.

To me the biggest "protocol" part that is associated with *22 has to do 
with how an envelope is derived from a composed message.

Reply processing is of course another bit of "protocol".

Keith

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