Detailed Revision/Update of Message Standards (drums)

Last Modified: 25-Apr-01

Chair(s):

Chris Newman <chris.newman@innosoft.com>

Applications Area Director(s):

Ned Freed <ned.freed@innosoft.com>
Patrik Faltstrom <paf@cisco.com>

Applications Area Advisor:

Ned Freed <ned.freed@innosoft.com>

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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:

Done   Issue a first Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
Done   Issue a first Internet-Draft of the ABNF document.
Done   Issue a second Interent-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
Done   Issue a second Internet-Draft of the ABNF document.
Done   Issue a first Internet-Draft of the revised message format document.
Done   Issue a third Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
Done   Issue a third Internet-Draft of the ABNF document.
Done   Issue a second Internet-Draft of the revised message format document.
Done   Issue a fourth Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
Done   Meet at Memphis IETF
Done   Issue a final Internet Draft of ABNF document.
Done   Issue a fifth Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
Done   Issue a third Internet-Draft of the revised message format document.
Done   Issue a final Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
Done   Issue a final Internet-Draft of the revised message format document.
Done   Meet at Munich IETF.
Done   Final revision of message format document ready for publication
Done   Submit final SMTP update to IESG for publication as RFC

Internet-Drafts:

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (187222 bytes)
Internet Message Format (96560 bytes)

Request For Comments:

Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF (RFC 2234) (24265 bytes)

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