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The Revision of core Email specifications (emailcore) WG will hold
a virtual interim meeting on 2022-05-19 from 17:00 to 18:00 Europe/London (16:00 to 17:00 UTC).

Agenda:
Finish rfc5321bis and possibly spend time on some A/S document issues

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Revision of core Email specifications WG of the IETF.

        Title           : Internet Message Format
        Author          : Peter W. Resnick
	Filename        : draft-ietf-emailcore-rfc5322bis-03.txt
	Pages           : 56
	Date            : 2022-04-04

Abstract:
   This document specifies the Internet Message Format (IMF), a syntax
   for text messages that are sent between computer users, within the
   framework of "electronic mail" messages.  This specification is a
   revision of Request For Comments (RFC) 5322, itself a revision of
   Request For Comments (RFC) 2822, all of which supersede Request For
   Comments (RFC) 822, "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text
   Messages", updating it to reflect current practice and incorporating
   incremental changes that were specified in other RFCs.


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The significant change here is reverting from "visible" to "printable" 
in sections 2.2 and 2.2.1, making it clear that "printable" does not 
include space, and then using VCHAR throughout the rest of the document.

There's one other choice, but I'm not sure it's worth it: If I were to 
say "graphic characters (section 4.3 of [ANSI.X3-4.1986])", that would 
be closest to what we're looking for (see 
http://sliderule.mraiow.com/w/images/7/73/ASCII.pdf). That said, it's 
not perfect: Section 4.2 of that document says that the space character 
"is interpreted both as a graphic character and as a control character". 
If you think using "graphic" instead of "printable" is significantly 
better, do say.

pr

On 4 Apr 2022, at 11:30, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:

> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
> directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Revision of core Email specifications 
> WG of the IETF.
>
>         Title           : Internet Message Format
>         Author          : Peter W. Resnick
>     Filename        : draft-ietf-emailcore-rfc5322bis-03.txt
>     Pages           : 56
>     Date            : 2022-04-04
>
> Abstract:
>    This document specifies the Internet Message Format (IMF), a syntax
>    for text messages that are sent between computer users, within the
>    framework of "electronic mail" messages.  This specification is a
>    revision of Request For Comments (RFC) 5322, itself a revision of
>    Request For Comments (RFC) 2822, all of which supersede Request For
>    Comments (RFC) 822, "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text
>    Messages", updating it to reflect current practice and 
> incorporating
>    incremental changes that were specified in other RFCs.
>
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-emailcore-rfc5322bis/
>
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>
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>
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It appears that Pete Resnick  <resnick@episteme.net> said:
>The significant change here is reverting from "visible" to "printable" 
>in sections 2.2 and 2.2.1, making it clear that "printable" does not 
>include space, and then using VCHAR throughout the rest of the document.
>
>There's one other choice, but I'm not sure it's worth it: If I were to 
>say "graphic characters (section 4.3 of [ANSI.X3-4.1986])", that would 
>be closest to what we're looking for (see 
>http://sliderule.mraiow.com/w/images/7/73/ASCII.pdf). That said, it's 
>not perfect: Section 4.2 of that document says that the space character 
>"is interpreted both as a graphic character and as a control character". 
>If you think using "graphic" instead of "printable" is significantly 
>better, do say.

I'd leave it alone.  It's horrifying enough that #'&%)!@*? is a valid
header field name.  The other changes look fine.

Not suggesting a change here but do you remember why it refers to
ANSI X3.4-1986 rather than RFC 20 which is a copy of X3.4-1968?  The
differences between the two are insiginificant.

R's,
John

PS: I wonder how many message parsers do the right think (i.e., nothing)
with unmatched quotes in header field names.


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On 4 Apr 2022, at 14:36, John Levine wrote:

> It appears that Pete Resnick  <resnick@episteme.net> said:
>> The significant change here is reverting from "visible" to 
>> "printable"
>> in sections 2.2 and 2.2.1, making it clear that "printable" does not
>> include space, and then using VCHAR throughout the rest of the 
>> document.
>>
>> There's one other choice, but I'm not sure it's worth it: If I were 
>> to
>> say "graphic characters (section 4.3 of [ANSI.X3-4.1986])", that 
>> would
>> be closest to what we're looking for (see
>> http://sliderule.mraiow.com/w/images/7/73/ASCII.pdf). That said, it's
>> not perfect: Section 4.2 of that document says that the space 
>> character
>> "is interpreted both as a graphic character and as a control 
>> character".
>> If you think using "graphic" instead of "printable" is significantly
>> better, do say.
>
> I'd leave it alone.  It's horrifying enough that #'&%)!@*? is a valid
> header field name.

I'm personally always in favor of "principle of least change".

> The other changes look fine.

Ack.

> Not suggesting a change here but do you remember why it refers to
> ANSI X3.4-1986 rather than RFC 20 which is a copy of X3.4-1968?  The
> differences between the two are insiginificant.

No mention of it in the archives. I'm guessing because it was not 
labeled as "Standard" back then.

> PS: I wonder how many message parsers do the right think (i.e., 
> nothing)
> with unmatched quotes in header field names.

Heh. A fun thing to test, I suppose.

pr
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Hi.  In the hope of getting things moving again (and noting that
the number of messages posted about rfc5321bis since the day of
the plenary appears to be zero), I thought I might have a go at
this.  

I went back to my notes to try to be sure of what we were
talking about when the text went into the spec.  The first part
of the story comes from there: the term is in 2821 and, modulo
the "submission server" issue (and noting that RFC 2476, the
first "message submission" spec was published before 2821), it
is unclear why questions about it didn't come up until now if
they are important to spend significant time on.  While I
believe the relevant text could, and should, be more clear, that
history does make an argument that leaving text alone that has
been unchanged for 21 years and never produced significant
complaints until now would be unlikely to cause major harm.
However, we did change it (see below) and that made it worse.

For additional context, most of the discussions about that term
have appeared to assume that it is used without context.  That
was not the case in 2821 and 5321.  The text in both 2821 and
5321 comes from a paragraph that starts out talking about
<forward-path>s and source routes.  It may be worth going back
and reviewing the whole paragraph (part of Section 3.3 of RFC
5321) but the specific "restricted-capability" text reads:

	"These restrictions make a server useless as a relay for
	clients that do not support full SMTP functionality.
	Consequently, restricted-capability clients MUST NOT
	assume that any SMTP server on the Internet can be used
	as their mail processing (relaying) site."

In the process of trying to straighten out and shorten the text
about source routes, I moved and rewrote that sentence and its
context to read:

	"Historically, the <forward-path> was permitted to
	contain a source routing list of hosts and the
	destination mailbox; however, source routes are now
	deprecated (see Appendix F.2).  Restricted-capability
	clients MUST NOT assume that any SMTP server on the
	Internet can be used as their mail processing (relaying)
	site."

Conclusion #1: That change, and how I did it, made whatever
problems that may or may not have existed worse.  I obviously
bear the responsibility for not getting it right, but some of
the cause was the WG decision to try to clear all discussion of
source routes out of the document and that should be treated as
a lesson.

Another issue is that this is one of the places where the
"client", rather than "sender-SMTP", terminology does not help
with clarity.

Now, the requested explanation:

A restricted-capability client (sender-SMTP) is one that does
not support "full SMTP capability".  That includes the ability
to use MX records and maintain message queues and retrying as
specified in the spec.   I haven't tried to think through other
possible restrictions but those two are obvious.  Remembering
that we did wrote RFCs 2476, 4409, and 6409 on the assumption
that the "submission server" was a host that would send messages
outward as either a fully-conforming sender-SMTP or, perhaps, to
a "forwarder" relay that was itself a fully-conforming
receiver-SMTP and then sender-SMTP (rereading RFC 6409, it is
probably not be as clear about that as it should be but that is
out of scope for the current discussion).  In terms of the code
used, it might receive those messages either as a
slight-restricted receiver-SMTP (on port 587 or 25) or by a
variety of other means, but that is not our problem today
either.  There are no provisions there for relaying messages
around through a collection of systems. 

So, some example "restricted-capability" sender-SMTPs might
include:

 * The sender-SMTP side of an RFC 6409-conforming
	submission server that forwarded to a relay rather than
	maintaining its own queues.  As hinted above, 6409 does
	not appear to discuss the operation of the sender side
	of an MSA host.
	
 * An intra-enterprise host to which submission servers
	forward messages but that does not, itself, maintain
	queuing or MX processing but, instead, forwards to
	another, presumably intra-enterprise host that supports
	those functions and interfaces with the rest of
	Internet.  It might or might not route messages to
	destinations within the enterprise, presumably using
	internal DNS arrangements or some other (outside the
	spec) mechanism.
	
 * A national or regional host in an area with poor or
	intermittent connectivity that might handle intra-area
	traffic normally but that routes traffic for external
	Internet destinations to a common host for processing
	and, as needed, queuing etc.  FWIW, such "poor or
	intermittent connectivity" environments might easily
	include the Mars (or even the moon), where the
	advantages of transmitting messages to a host acting as
	an interplanetary gateway -- a host that would be
	completely unknown to an arbitrary destination host
	earthside (and hence would not appear in its MX list).

In each of these cases, the sender-SMTP knows which host or
hosts the message should be sent to because that information is
somehow configured in, not because of the MX mechanism and that
is at least part of what makes it, operationally,
"restricted-capability".

So, options (not mutually exclusive except for the first):

(1) Leave the current text alone and move on.  I _do not_
recommend this.

(2) Leave the current text alone but come up with better
terminology and/or get the relevant sentence(s) far away from
any sentence that mentions source routes.  Any suggestions for
better terminology should include one or more proposed terms.
Suggestions about moving it would be more welcome if they
included a suggestion about where to.

(3) Insert a significant portion of  the above, possibly
rewritten, to explain and illustrate what we are talking about.
An abridged version would be fine too if people want to suggest
what might be trimmed.

(4) Revert the attempt to clean out source route-related
language to the language and organization of 5321 on the
assumption that, if the move created this problem, it is likely
to have created others as well.

I await comments, injections of wisdom, and other responses.

    john


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I brought this up in the first place so I suppose this is largely
my fault.  How about just removing the restricted-capability bit,
and be done with it.

>	"These restrictions make a server useless as a relay for
>	clients. Consequently, clients MUST NOT
>	assume that any SMTP server on the Internet can be used
>	as their mail processing (relaying) site."

R's,
John


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--On Monday, April 4, 2022 17:48 -0400 John Levine
<johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

> I brought this up in the first place so I suppose this is
> largely my fault.  How about just removing the
> restricted-capability bit, and be done with it.
> 
>>	"These restrictions make a server useless as a relay for
>>	clients. Consequently, clients MUST NOT
>>	assume that any SMTP server on the Internet can be used
>>	as their mail processing (relaying) site."

But that is another piece of the puzzle.   Absent the
"restricted-capability bit", that statement becomes a very
awkward way to say "don't go looking for open relays" and raises
the question about whether 5321 says clearly enough that running
an open relay is bad security karma.

Having been burned once already by trying to rewrite that
sentence and its surroundings, I'm reluctant to suggest this but
it occurs to me that the right fix, if I/we could get it right,
would be to take the whole sentence (starting "Consequently")
out of there and replace it (there or in a more propitious
place) with one that says something like:

	There are two ways that sender-SMTPs can determine the
	next-hop system to which to send the message.  One is to
	use the DNS and MX records as describes in Section
	<whatever>.  The other involves a next-hop destination
	or choice of destinations that are configured into the
	sender-SMTP to deal with special circumstances.

Probably still not quite right but you the idea.  And I wouldn't
think we'd need to describe the "special circumstances" (and
that, if we did, that could be pushed into the A/S).

Let's see what others have to say.

   john




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--On Monday, April 4, 2022 12:03 -0500 Pete Resnick
<resnick=40episteme.net@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

> The significant change here is reverting from "visible" to
> "printable" in sections 2.2 and 2.2.1, making it clear that
> "printable" does not include space, and then using VCHAR
> throughout the rest of the document.

IMO, just right.
 
> There's one other choice, but I'm not sure it's worth it: If I
> were to say "graphic characters (section 4.3 of
> [ANSI.X3-4.1986])", that would be closest to what we're
> looking for (see
> http://sliderule.mraiow.com/w/images/7/73/ASCII.pdf). That
> said, it's not perfect: Section 4.2 of that document says that
> the space character "is interpreted both as a graphic
> character and as a control character". If you think using
> "graphic" instead of "printable" is significantly better, do
> say.

No.  I think that just gets more more tangled up in knots.  If
you want to be clear about what characters are allowed, either
enumerate them or use VCHAR (which enumerates them). 

Two suggestions, one of which I've suggested earlier and that I
notice John Levine picked up in a separate note (but I _am_
suggesting a change):

(1) Reference RFC 20 either in addition to or instead of
X3.4-1986.  Your supposition about "standard" might be correct
or it might have been that the reference to NIC 7104 might have
been better at the time 822 was written.  Dave might remember
but I can't imagine it makes much difference now.  Today, the
main point is that, unless one has a handy library that keeps
copies of old standards around in case someone might want to do
a comparison (I do; I imagine that you and John L., probably do;
but, in general...) copies of X3.4-1986 (and X3.4-1968) are
really hard to find.

(2) In any event, if you are going to reference X3.4-1986 at
all, please get rid of the anchor "[ANSI.X3-4.1986]" and replace
it with, e.g., "[ASCII]" (like 2822).  I don't note where the
"[ANSI.X3-4.1986]" notation came from, but it seems designed to
confuse some people and annoy others.

The other advantage of using RFC 20 is that there actually are
differences (although probably not significant for the purposes
of this document) between the 1968 version and the the 1986 one
(which is now formally designed as "ANSI INCITS 4-1986[R2017]".
Unless you find the relationships among 
   USAS X3.4-1968
   ANSI X3.4-1986 and 
   ANSI INCITS 4-1986[R2017]
and a few other forms amusing and un-confusing, that is another
reason to cite RFC 20 and be done with it, with the citation
anchor as [RFC20] or [ASCII] as you prefer as long as "RFC 20"
is in the body of the reference.

   john

   


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In general, I'd prefer [US-ASCII] to just [ASCII] for the anchor.

Regards,   Martin.

On 2022-04-05 13:39, John C Klensin wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Monday, April 4, 2022 12:03 -0500 Pete Resnick
> <resnick=40episteme.net@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> 
>> The significant change here is reverting from "visible" to
>> "printable" in sections 2.2 and 2.2.1, making it clear that
>> "printable" does not include space, and then using VCHAR
>> throughout the rest of the document.
> 
> IMO, just right.
>   
>> There's one other choice, but I'm not sure it's worth it: If I
>> were to say "graphic characters (section 4.3 of
>> [ANSI.X3-4.1986])", that would be closest to what we're
>> looking for (see
>> http://sliderule.mraiow.com/w/images/7/73/ASCII.pdf). That
>> said, it's not perfect: Section 4.2 of that document says that
>> the space character "is interpreted both as a graphic
>> character and as a control character". If you think using
>> "graphic" instead of "printable" is significantly better, do
>> say.
> 
> No.  I think that just gets more more tangled up in knots.  If
> you want to be clear about what characters are allowed, either
> enumerate them or use VCHAR (which enumerates them).
> 
> Two suggestions, one of which I've suggested earlier and that I
> notice John Levine picked up in a separate note (but I _am_
> suggesting a change):
> 
> (1) Reference RFC 20 either in addition to or instead of
> X3.4-1986.  Your supposition about "standard" might be correct
> or it might have been that the reference to NIC 7104 might have
> been better at the time 822 was written.  Dave might remember
> but I can't imagine it makes much difference now.  Today, the
> main point is that, unless one has a handy library that keeps
> copies of old standards around in case someone might want to do
> a comparison (I do; I imagine that you and John L., probably do;
> but, in general...) copies of X3.4-1986 (and X3.4-1968) are
> really hard to find.
> 
> (2) In any event, if you are going to reference X3.4-1986 at
> all, please get rid of the anchor "[ANSI.X3-4.1986]" and replace
> it with, e.g., "[ASCII]" (like 2822).  I don't note where the
> "[ANSI.X3-4.1986]" notation came from, but it seems designed to
> confuse some people and annoy others.
> 
> The other advantage of using RFC 20 is that there actually are
> differences (although probably not significant for the purposes
> of this document) between the 1968 version and the the 1986 one
> (which is now formally designed as "ANSI INCITS 4-1986[R2017]".
> Unless you find the relationships among
>     USAS X3.4-1968
>     ANSI X3.4-1986 and
>     ANSI INCITS 4-1986[R2017]
> and a few other forms amusing and un-confusing, that is another
> reason to cite RFC 20 and be done with it, with the citation
> anchor as [RFC20] or [ASCII] as you prefer as long as "RFC 20"
> is in the body of the reference.
> 
>     john
> 


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--On Tuesday, April 5, 2022 13:43 +0900 "Martin J. D=C3=BCrst"
<duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:

> In general, I'd prefer [US-ASCII] to just [ASCII] for the
> anchor.

Martin, for the anchor, I really don't care as long as it isn't
complicated and confusing like "[ANSI.X3-4.1986]".   I prefer
[ASCII] or [RFC20] to [US-ASCII], but not by much.  As you have
probably noticed, I completely gave up on similar debates with
2821 and 5321 and went to numeric anchors.

I'm much more concerned about the term used to refer to the CCS
in running text.

But, out of curiosity, why do you prefer [US-ASCII]?  AFAICT, it
does not convey any extra information.  In particular, it is not
as if "ASCII" is ambiguous because there are things like
JP-ASCII, CH-ASCII, GB-ASCII, or other such things floating
around.  There aren't.

   john


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Hello John,

On 2022-04-05 14:39, John C Klensin wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Tuesday, April 5, 2022 13:43 +0900 "Martin J. Dürst"
> <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
>> In general, I'd prefer [US-ASCII] to just [ASCII] for the
>> anchor.
> 
> Martin, for the anchor, I really don't care as long as it isn't
> complicated and confusing like "[ANSI.X3-4.1986]".   I prefer
> [ASCII] or [RFC20] to [US-ASCII], but not by much.  As you have
> probably noticed, I completely gave up on similar debates with
> 2821 and 5321 and went to numeric anchors.
> 
> I'm much more concerned about the term used to refer to the CCS
> in running text.
> 
> But, out of curiosity, why do you prefer [US-ASCII]?

My short answer is
https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml
(first entry).

The US-ASCII label is firmly and widely established.

> AFAICT, it
> does not convey any extra information.  In particular, it is not
> as if "ASCII" is ambiguous because there are things like
> JP-ASCII, CH-ASCII, GB-ASCII, or other such things floating
> around.  There aren't.

Yes, there are no such labels. And the ISO 646 variants for which they 
might have been used aren't in wide use anymore. But as far as I have 
heard from people with experience in this area that goes back farther 
than mine, these ISO 646 variants were the reason the label US-ASCII was 
introduced.

Regards,   Martin.


> 
>     john
> 

