Re: I-D ACTION:draft-arun-ncc-smtp-02.txt

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> On Tue April 5 2005 15:30, Internet-Drafts@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> > 
> > 
> > 	Title		: Ncc in Mail Header
> > 	Author(s)	: A. Sankar
> > 	Filename	: draft-arun-ncc-smtp-02.txt
> > 	Pages		: 4
> > 	Date		: 2005-4-5
> > 	
> > This draft presents a mechanism to simplify one of the cumbersome 
> > aspects of mailing, when one needs to send mails only to a subset of 
> > mail-ids from an alias [ALIAS] . The basic intention is only to minimize 
> > the complication and difficulty of a mail user when a mail needs to be 
> > sent to n - m mail IDs i.e. send it to a group Id of n and exclude m
> > from the alias [ALIAS] list.
> > 
> > A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-arun-ncc-smtp-02.txt
> 
> As the draft lacks any indication of where discussion should take
> place, I'm sending these comments to the author and the IETF discussion
> list, with informational copies to the ietf-822 and ietf-smtp lists.

All of your comments miss the most important points - namely that this
proposal breaks layering and it isn't backward compatible with the 
installed base.    For those reasons alone there's no way that this
proposal should be seriously considered.

Keith

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