Mail Extensions (mailext) Charter
NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 33rd IETF Meeting in Stockholm. 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may now be out-of-date.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)
- C. Allan Cargille <allan@internetMCI.com>
Applications Area Director(s):
- John Klensin <Klensin@mci.net>
- Harald Alvestrand <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
Area Advisor
- John Klensin <Klensin@mci.net>
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Description of Working Group
The Mail Extensions Working Group will review, refine as
needed, and then make a recommendation on standardization of several
recent proposals for standards-track compatible extensions to SMTP
(via the Service Extensions mechanism), MIME (via new Content
Subtypes), and MIME-MHS (via MIME Content Subtypes and usage rules).
It will also act as the review body for several documents that
clarify and provide applicability statements about the use of
Internet mail: that work will ultimately lead to an update for the
mail-related section of RFC 1123. Part of that effort involves
RARE WG-MSG documents that address the Internet's installed
electronic mail infrastructure. Since such documents should not
be processed in RARE alone, this working group will act as the
IETF focus for reviewing them.
Initial drafts of all of the documents that the working group is
expected to review have already been, or will soon be, published.
The working group will be starting with documents that have been
prepared as individual (or spontaneous design team) contributions.
It is not expected to initiate new work. On the other hand, it is
expected to make explicit ``not ready for standardization'' or
``inappropriate for standardization'' recommendations if that is
appropriate.
The working group will be initialized with the following Internet-
Drafts or their successors, listed alphabetically. A major purpose
of its first meeting is to prune or add to this list.
draft-freed-ftbp-00.txt
draft-freed-smtp-pipeline-00.txt
draft-houttuin-mailservers-02.txt
draft-rare-msg-a-bombs-00.txt
draft-rare-msg-c-bombs-00.txt
draft-vaudreuil-smtp-binary-04.txt
draft-vaudreuil-smtp-stream-00.txt
Goals and Milestones
- Done
- Meet at the Toronto IETF. Review pending Internet-Drafts and decide for each whether it is ready for processing to Proposed, should be published as Experimental or Informational, should be discarded as a working group effort, or should be a candidate for further working group development. Refine the charter and work plan.
- Jul 94
- Publish an Internet-Draft on mail transport clarifications.
- Sep 94
- Revised drafts and IESG processing of any documents that were concluded in July to be ready for processing.
- Oct 94
- Revised versions of specification documents identified as needing further development published as Internet-Drafts and ready for processing and final review.
- Oct 94
- Publication of revised versions of any documents that were concluded in July to be ready to advance onto the standards track.
- Dec 94
- Final review of remaining specification documents during the San Jose IETF. Penultimate review of clarifications and applicability statements documents.
- Jan 95
- New Internet-Drafts of clarifications and applicability statements documents.
- Jan 95
- Final Internet-Drafts of specification documents ready for Last Call and IESG processing to Proposed Standard.
- Apr 95
- Final review on clarifications and applicability statements documents as Internet-Drafts during IETF.
- May 95
- Clarifications and applicability statements documents ready for Last Call and IESG processing to Proposed Standard.
Current Internet-Drafts
Request for Comments