Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-imapext-sort (INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - SORT AND THREAD EXTENSIONS) to Proposed Standard

[Pete Resnick <presnick at qualcomm.com>]

On 2/27/08 at 11:58 AM -0800, Dan Karp wrote:

>If there's a problem with the draft -- for instance, that the FROM 
>sort is useless from a client standpoint or that the CC sort will 
>never be used by a real-world client -- then it should be fixed 
>before reaching RFC status.

OK, let me do a bit of a process interrupt here:

We're talking about going to Proposed Standard here, and IMO way too 
late. The current SORT *has* been implemented and looks like it may 
be considered useful by some clients. If, after publication, we find 
that it doesn't interoperate reasonably (which may include 
"independent clients don't implement this thing" or "clients can't 
get it right"), we can always go back and make changes. But the fact 
that some clients do a similar operation differently is *not* a 
reason to delay publication.

pr
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