Re: homework, not an experiment, draft-crocker-email-deliveredto

Sorry, I'm not playing that game any more.

This message says what I mean.


On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, Dave Crocker wrote:

> On 8/2/2021 11:22 AM, John Levine wrote:
>> On further thought, this experiment makes no sense.
>> 
>> We have two decades of experience with Delivered-To. It has multiple
>> compatible implementations that have have worked the same way for decades.
>
> Sorry that I missed your previous commentary here, on the technical aspects 
> of the draft that create a problem.
>
> (Something must be misbehaving with either my mail system or the IETF's, 
> since this is at least the second time I've seen a note from you offering a 
> conclusion where I missed the foundation.)
>
> Please point to the messages that have outlined what the details are that 
> make it impossible for this draft to be viable.
>
>
>
>> Since there is no chance that the implementations will change,
>
> Your certitude is impressive.  Please document its basis.
>
>
>> PS: Isn't this how IETF standards used to work, write a couple of separate 
>> implementations,
>> see if they interoperate, and then write it up as a draft standard?
>
> Given your extensive IETF experience, it's surprising that you'd offer an 
> historical summary this skewed, covering some of what has been done, while 
> missing so much else of what has been done.  In other words, it used to be 
> done, sometimes.  And it still is.  Sometimes.  And it wasn't done, 
> sometimes.  And it still isn't.  Sometimes.
>
>
>

Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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