<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I guess that is right. I stand corrected. No one else has had any input into SMTP since 822. Oops.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 15, 2018, at 10:58, Craig Partridge <<a href="mailto:craig@tereschau.net" class="">craig@tereschau.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 9:01 AM, John Day <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:jeanjour@comcast.net" target="_blank" class="">jeanjour@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yes, it was a committee as was SMTP. But before you get to self-satisfied with how smart we all were and they weren’t. It should be pointed out that much of the design of both X.400 and X.500 was driven by the former DARPA participants in the National Software Works project from SRI. I had many an argument with them over various aspects of it.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A historical nit (but isn't that what this list is about? :-)). SMTP, as best I could determine when I did research on the history of email was *not* a committee product but rather something Jon Postel wrote in response to criticism (as best I could determine, from Peter Kirstein) of MTP.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Whereas RFC 733/822 message and address formats were committee products (and given we were discussion addresses, seems to better fit John's comment).<br class=""><br class="">Craig </div></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""></div></div></div></div>
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