Dick, you wrote: ...
RFC compliance could even be turned into a marketing advantage, which would put pressure on other networks to comply as well.
RFCs form Internet guidelines, notes, and standards. They are not marketing advantages, brochure fillers, reasons, pressure-points, or massage techniques. You've shown usual lack of understanding of bandwidth usage, conservation, and reservation, despite many comments from Michael and others.
I much prefer pressuring developers than pressuring users, but I think anyone who runs a "retail" network or is aware of mailbombing software, spamming software, or cracking software knows that being part policeman and part parent comes with the territory. "Bad" applications will be written no matter what the RFC says.
RFCs don't pressure developers or users, and has nothing to do with your seriously messed-up religious viewpoints on "retail networks" or whatever else you were typing while your prozac wore off. Please don't make it any worse by calling for an RFC ''so marketing can force'' some solution you don't understand to a problem you can't define on a network you don't run or ever will grok.
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