Re: Last Call: <draft-melnikov-smtp-priority-07.txt> (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol extension for Message Transfer Priorities) to Proposed Standard

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> This draft specifies a SMTP extension.  The IANA Considerations does not
> mention registration in the the SMTP Service Extensions registry.

It certainly does, in the first paragraph:

   This specification requests IANA to add the PRIORITY SMTP extension
   to the "SMTP Service Extensions" registry (in
   http://www.iana.org/assignments/mail-parameters).

> There
> should also be an indication about the extension being valid for the submit
> port.

Section 3:
   7.  The PRIORITY extension is valid for the submission service
       [RFC6409] and LTMP [RFC2033].

(Murray has already commented on the misspelling of "LMTP" here.)

> This draft also defines the MT-Priority header field.  It is quite unusual
> for a SMTP extension specification to define a mail header field.  If I had
> an reservations about this draft, it would be on architectural grounds.  The
> draft tries really hard to transfer priority information over the Internet
> and in a foreign environment.

This is my major concern about this protocol as well, as I note in the
PROTO writeup (which, unfortunately, can't be seen publicly because of
a limitation in the datatracker; perhaps I should post it here).  I'm
interested in hearing whether others share this concern, and what the
community consensus is about it.

Barry, document shepherd
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