Re: working group last call on ISP draft

[Randall Gellens <Randy@qualcomm.com>]

At 3:45 PM -0500 3/5/98, hansen@pegasus4.bl-els.att.com wrote:

>On a related note, I reread Randall's draft on the SUBMIT port and disagree
>with section 5.3.1, which says that the MSA must look at what is in the
>header found in the DATA, and then make certain corrections. I think this
>would be sufficient grounds for many vendors to refuse to switch to the
>SUBMIT port. Which could be a problem with getting the GRIP recommendation
>to fly.

5.3.1 says MSAs MUST ensure that domains are fully-qualified.  That's
not an unreasonable requirement.

The SUBMIT background is that many currently-deployed MTAs look at the
headers in the message data and make alterations.  In many cases these
alterations are harmful, making problems worse.  Also in many cases
these alterations are done to *all* messages passing through the MTA.
The SUBMIT port is intended to formalize what changes can be made and
to which messages.