FW: IESG comments on NOTARY drafts

"Glenn Parsons" <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Jul 2002 17:51:18 -0400
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FYI.

The authors are revising the DSN documents based on these comments.

Cheers,
Glenn.

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> Attached below is feedback from the IESG about these drafts. Everything
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<P><FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">The authors are =
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<P><FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Cheers,</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF" SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Glenn.</FONT>
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draft-moore-rfc1891bis-00.txt

(1) Needs a table of contents (> 15 pages).

(2) Split references into normative & non-normative.

(3) The doc does not clearly say if it updates/obsoletes 1891.
    (An Obsoletes: RFC 1891 needs to be added at the beginning.)

(4) MUST (etc) used w/o definition.

(5) In

          subfield MUST NOT be "dns". A MTA-name-type subfield value of "-
          x-local-hostname" is suggested.

    The extra dash at the end of the line is wrong; it needs to go and the quote
    should be moved to the following line.

(6) The text introducing section 10 (Appendix) is broken where RFC 1891
    has backslashes.

  NOTE: Formatting rules for RFCs require that no line be longer than 72
  characters. Therefore, in the following examples, some SMTP commands
  longer than 72 characters are printed on two lines, with the first line
  ending in " command would be sent as a single line (i.e. with no
  embedded CRLFs), and without the "

    Both of those single '"'s are '"\"' and have more text after them in
    RFC 1891.

draft-vaudreuil-1892bis-01.txt

(1) The doc does not clearly say if it updates/obsoletes 1892.
    (An Obsoletes: RFC 1892 needs to be added at the beginning.)

(2) Split references into normative & non-normative. (I believe all of them
    are normative, so saying that is sufficient.)

(3) The [DRPT] reference needs to be changed to refer to 
    draft-moore-rfc1891bis-01.txt.

draft-vaudreuil-1893bis-01.txt

(1) The doc does not clearly say if it updates/obsoletes 1893.
    (An Obsoletes: RFC 1893 needs to be added at the beginning.)

(2) Split references into normative & non-normative.

(3) The [SMTP-CODES] reference makes no sense in this document and should
    be removed. (Nothing refers to it.)

(4) The [DSN] reference needs to refer to draft-vaudreuil-1894bis-01.txt.

draft-vaudreuil-1894bis-01.txt

(1) The doc does not clearly say if it updates/obsoletes 1894.
    (An Obsoletes: RFC 1894 needs to be added at the beginning.)

(2) Split references into normative & non-normative.

(3) The ABNF in section 2.2.3 is broken. It should read:

    dsn-gateway-field = "DSN-Gateway" ":" mta-name-type ";" mta-name

(4) The field value suggested in section 2.2.3 has changed from "smtp" to
    "dns", which is a valid correction, but this change isn't noted in the
    change history.

Finally, there's the issue I described in an earlier message regarding
the ENVID and ORCPT parameters. Specifically, draft-moore-rfc1891bis-00.txt
is quite clear that these fields can contain stuff other than ASCII characters:

  The syntax for "esmtp-value" in [4] does not allow SP, "=", control
  characters, or characters outside the traditional ASCII range of 1-127
  decimal to be transmitted in an esmtp-value.  Because the ENVID and
  ORCPT parameters may need to convey values outside this range, the
  esmtp-values for these parameters are encoded as "xtext".

However, the corresponding Original-Envelope-Id and Original-Recipient fields
defined in draft-vaudreuil-1894bis-01.txt are simply *text. This means some
encoding must be allowed for. Absent a specification of the encoding to
be used there's no way to insure interoperability. 

There are two ways to solve this:

(1) State that ENVID and ORCPT can only contain ASCII text.

(2) State that when ENVID and ORCPT values are placed in a DSN they should
    be encoded. The obvious encoding to use is xtext.

FWIW, my own implementation in PMDF does (2).

That's it!

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