On 01-Nov-24 18:58, S Moonesamy wrote: ...
And if some government makes STARTTLS illegal ...
... the it simply doesn't matter whether it's a might, a MAY, a SHOULD or a MUST in an RFC. Implementers and operators will do what they need to do. ...
As a comment about HTTPS, one of the sites which used to be available over HTTPS is www.youtube.com. I cannot access that web site at the moment.
This is unfortunate, but again, what we write in RFCs is rather irrelevant in any such jurisdiction. The IETF has precisely zero power in such a situation. Brian