On Mon, 30 Jun 2025, Mark Svancarek (CELA) wrote:
This is great feedback for a future updated scoring mechanism. When assigning scores to the tests in the self-certification guide, we had a few challenges and tradeoffs: 1. Distinguishing between components and systems which could host internationalized mailboxes and those which could only send/receive to/from internationalized addresses 2. Scoring the individual components from which a system could be assembled versus scoring complete end to end systems 3. Checklist pass/fail scoring versus weighed scoring 4. Limiting the number of badges
You might also want to separate out the tests that are for standards compliance and don't affect the user. MTA.5 is about what goes in a Received header which is normally invisible to the user. MDA-I.4, 5, and 6 are about aspects of the EAI IMAP extension, but all the stuff they enable can be (and usually are) done with other commands. R's, John Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly