On Mon 2019-01-14 22:29:50 -0500, John Levine wrote:
> When the ABNF about extended-domain was written with the comment about
> info derived from the TCP connection, the TCP connection was
> synonymous with the transport.  Now the transport is TCP plus STARTTLS
> in various versions plus SNI, none of which was contemplated back in
> 2001.  I think it's reasonable to use extended-domain for info about
> the underlying transport, even if the details are not strictly about
> TCP.  After all, the rDNS name in the FROM extended-domain comes from
> a DNS PTR lookup of the IP address which uses IP over UDP so it's
> never been strictly about TCP.

I agree with this reasoning -- the TCP-info ABNF doesn't even
contemplate a way to indicate source port, which it would if it was
trying to accurately describe a TCP session in detail specific to TCP.
It's about transport and routing ("how did the inbound MTA get here?"),
so it seems fair game for SNI.

  --dkg

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