Re: Experimental (was: Re: homework, not an experiment, draft-crocker-email-deliveredto)

I'm with Dave on the idea of being Experimental.

I know that Delivered-To has been around for a long time, but I always
thought having the email address and the time stamp on Delivered-To would
reading headers a bit easier for this person.

tim


On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 1:10 PM Dave Crocker <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 8/5/2021 10:05 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> > I think "Informational" is a much better fit.  This would document the
> > long established practice of using "Delivered-To:" for loop detection.
>
>
> It isn't.  As I suggested, the document qualifies under more than one of
> the reasons.
>
> I left off a derivative point, which is that 'Experimental' is a signal
> to the wider technical and operations community that comments are
> sought.  As they are, in this case.
>
> There seems to be an inordinate focus on the loop detection benefit,
> while ignoring the handling trace audit use that was, frankly, the
> original reason for developing the document.
>
> d/
>
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