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

[Barry Leiba <barryleiba@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, it's absolutely true that if one is to define this sort of thing as a combination of SMTP protocol and message header fields, that should be done in a single specification.  What I'm interested in community input on is whether the mechanism of transferring the information back and forth between the two, and having SMTP protocol get involved in inspecting and altering header fields is a good thing.

Barry, document shepherd

On Thursday, March 1, 2012, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:

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> From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of SM
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 1:36 PM
> To: ietf@xxxxxxxx
> Cc: Alexey Melnikov
> Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-melnikov-smtp-priority-07.txt> (Simple
> Mail Transfer Protocol extension for Message Transfer Priorities) to
> Proposed Standard
>
> 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.
> Although the draft is well-written and can be implemented, I have
> doubts about whether it will achieve its objective.  I unfortunately
> cannot support the publication of this draft as a Proposed Standard.

It's certainly true that this could be done as a pair of clustered drafts, but since they are clearly meant to be used together, and indeed have to be when tunneling priority information through non-participating environments, their coupling into a single draft makes sense to me.

Doubling the work of the IESG and the RFC Editor doesn't seem reasonable here.

-MSK
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