> 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 _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf