Re: Whither SMTP extensions

Hi Walt -- It is interesting to contemplate just when the installed
base of older systems, many of which are now unsupported for many
reasons, deserve to be declared "an insignifcant minority" to justify
declaring that they are broken, even though they "still "conform to
the standing specification".

It is also interesting to contemplate when it is OK to just change a
srtanding specification, or extend it in such a way that the change
breaks the standing specification.

Let's see nopw.  IP is running out of address space.  How about lets
some of us just start using longer addresses?  OH, we need IETF and
IAB agremetns don't we?  Well, lets just get them, and get on with it
now.

My observation is that it depends greatly upon whose ox is about to be
gored...  Yours... Or mine...  Hers... Or His...    Cheers...\Stef