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# SCOPE
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## One-liner
Mail Address Semantics (MAS) v0.1 reference implementation: parser, statute discovery, pure policy, CLI, mail gateway and reference ticket service.
Reference implementation and spec workbench for Mail Address Semantics
(MAS): parser, statute discovery, pure policy, generator, CLI, mail
gateway, reference ticket service, and a tested Postfix integration
profile. It implements v0.1.1 and the v0.2 draft.
## Core Idea
mail-address-semantics exists to provide the capability described in INTENT.md.
Test whether ordinary email addresses can carry limited, parseable
semantics (opaque targets, `type=id` resources, `+` facets, `!`
interaction preferences) through real mail infrastructure, without
changing SMTP and without making addresses credentials or commands
(INTENT.md). The architectural boundary is fixed: the parser does no I/O,
policy is pure, only `mas_core/discovery.py` touches the network, and
delivery stays external.
## In Scope
- Maintain the repository's primary implementation.
- Keep docs, tests, and operational metadata current.
- **Normative bundles.** `mas-v0.1-spec/` (v0.1.1 errata) and
`mas-v0.2-spec/` (draft: stand-ins, destination transforms,
`resource_id_case`). Spec changes go through
`docs/spec-change-proposals.md`.
- **`mas_core`.** Parser, model, statute validation and lint, exact-host
discovery with explicit `inherits`, policy, and the generator with v0.2
destination transforms.
- **`mas_conformance`.** Address, property, statute and v0.2
statute-aware corpora, vendored unchanged from the bundles and checked
for drift.
- **`mas` CLI.** `parse`, `explain`, `discover`, `compose`,
`lint-statute`, `test`.
- **`mas_gateway`.** MTA `pipe` and provider-style `webhook` to a
normalized HTTP event. It reads sender authentication only from trusted
`Authentication-Results`.
- **Examples.** A static statute and the reference ticket service: create,
correlate by address, closed lifecycle, quarantine, a DMARC-gated reply,
and a lifetime send cap.
- **MTA integration.** `integrations/postfix/` (profile plus README),
tested against a real Postfix by `experiments/postfix-probe/` and
`tests/test_postfix_profile.py` (needs Docker). Exim: notes only
(`integrations/exim/NOTES.md`).
- **Live test environment.** `deploy/railiance/`: the MX for
`mas.coulomb.social`, with replies through Scaleway TEM capped at 300.
It is temporary; MAS-WP-0007 retires it.
## Out of Scope
- Own unrelated adjacent systems.
- Make irreversible operational decisions without human approval.
- Implementations in other languages (TypeScript, Go), until a second
consumer exists. That is also the gate for declaring v0.2 final
(MAS-WP-0009).
- Postfix policy daemon, Exim profile (until there is demand), mail-client
plugins and inspectors, browser extensions, a web composer.
- Central MAS registry, signed statutes, implicit parent-domain
inheritance, production identity federation.
- P3 economic semantics: `$` and `^` stay reserved. Also payments,
signatures and marketplaces.
- Application business logic in the gateway. Production ticketing. Sender
policy beyond what the reference service needs to avoid backscatter.
- Irreversible operational actions (cluster teardown, key revocation,
redeploys) without founder approval.
## Current State
- Status: active; implementation and stability should be verified by the repo agent.
- Status: active. The reference experiment (MAS-WP-0002) passed its
decision gate on 2026-10-18; the findings are in
`docs/experiment-review.md`.
- Finished: MAS-WP-0001 to 0006 and 0008. Postfix profile, v0.1.1 errata,
v0.2 draft, address composer, and v0.2 conformance cases.
- Open: MAS-WP-0007 (retire the live MX; backlog, unblocked) and
MAS-WP-0009 (declare v0.2 final; waits for a second implementation or
deployment).
- v0.2 stays a draft (founder, 2026-10-19).
- The live `mas-mx` pod runs an image built before the profile refactor.
- Tests: `.venv/bin/pytest` runs 199 tests, offline apart from loopback
fixtures and the Docker probe.
## Getting Oriented
- Start with: INTENT.md
- Start with: INTENT.md, then `docs/experiment-review.md`
- Agent instructions: AGENTS.md
- Workplans: workplans/