Hi Erik,
I am copying this message to ietf@xxxxxxxx instead of the perpass
mailing list as the question is not related to surveillance.
At 04:00 09-06-2014, JOSEFSSON Erik wrote:
I need help from the standards community with regards to
RFC-compliance in the European Parliament.
I reach out here because I believe you expect your work on improving
the internet will be implemented, maybe in particular by public
bodies we hold to a higher standard wrt transparency than others[0].
In an Access to Documents request the EP just stated that
"conformity with RFC-5321 section 3.9 is by nature outside EP's
responsibilities" [1].
Do you agree? Are there RFCs which correct implementation would, by
nature, fall within the responsibilities of the EP?
I read the reply. In my opinion the text quoted (above) from the
reply conveys a different meaning. My understanding of that part of
the reply is that mailing lists managed outside that email system is
outside EP's responsibility. The question you asked could be stated
as follows:
Is it the responsibility of the EP to set the standards for email systems
to adhere to?
Please find a link to our documentation of the particular issue with
RFC-5321 section 3.9 below[2]
The issue in that document is about whether the mail relays for
europarl.europa.eu can reject a message from a (external) mailing
list if the "From:" header contains "europarl.europa.eu" as the
domain part. There is be a mail delivery problem if the external
email system implements and follows what is written in RFC 5321.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy