Detailed Revision/Update of message standards (drums) Charter
NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 32nd IETF Meeting in Danvers. It
may now be out-of-date. (Consider this a "snapshot" of the working
group from that meeting.) Up-to-date charters for all active working
groups can be found elsewhere in this Web server.
Chair(s)
- Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Applications Area Director(s):
- John Klensin <Klensin@mail1.reston.mci.net>
- Harald Alvestrand <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
Area Advisor
- Harald Alvestrand <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
Mailing List Information
- General Discussion:drums@cs.utk.edu
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Description of Working Group
The goal of this working group is to develop and review revised
versions of RFC 821 and RFC 822, incorporating the revisions in RFC
974, RFC 1123, and RFC 1651.
In addition, the group will review other RFCs related to messaging, and
determine the applicability of each of these to the future direction of
the messaging in the Internet. The group may choose to incorporate,
deprecate, or write applicability statements for such documents, as
necessary to produce a clear statement of requirements for overall
interoperability of Internet electronic mail.
The documents produced by the working group are intended to be
submitted to the IESG for consideration as Internet Standards.
Items appropriate for inclusion in documents produced by the working
group include corrections, clarifications, and amplifications to
reflect existing practice or to address problems which have been
identified through experience with Internet mail protocols. New
functionality is expressly inappropriate.
Goals and Milestones
- Aug 95
- Issue one or more Internet-Drafts which identify problems with existing messaging documents, and propose solutions to those problems with solutions that can be identified.
- Dec 95
- Issue a first Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
- Mar 96
- Issue a first Internet-Draft of the revised message format document.
- Mar 96
- Issue a second Interent-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
- Jul 96
- Issue a second Internet-Draft of the revised message format document.
- Jul 96
- Issue a third Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
- Oct 96
- Issue a third Internet-Draft of the revised message format document.
- Dec 96
- Submit documents to IESG for approval.
No Current Internet-Drafts
No Request for Comments