Re: Gen-ART review of draft-melnikov-sieve-imapext-metadata-08

["Spencer Dawkins" <spencer at wonderhamster.org>]

Hi, Alexey,

That would be great - and thanks for continuing to think about my comments.

Spencer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexey Melnikov" <alexey.melnikov at isode.com>
To: "Spencer Dawkins" <spencer at wonderhamster.org>
Cc: <ietf at ietf.org>; "General Area Review Team" <gen-art at ietf.org>; "Lisa 
Dusseault" <lisa at osafoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: Gen-ART review of draft-melnikov-sieve-imapext-metadata-08


> Spencer Dawkins wrote:
>
> > Hi, Alexey,
>
> Hi Spencer,
>
> > Thanks for the quick response back... now I can remember what I said in 
> > the review ;-)
> >
> > Spencer
> >
> > > Spencer Dawkins wrote:
> [...]
>
> > > > 5.  Security Considerations
> > > >
> > > >   Extensions defined in this document deliberately don't provide a way
> > > >   to modify annotations.
> > > >
> > > > Spencer: The next two paragraphs punt to "same as sieve script" - could 
> > > > you
> > > > provide a specific reference for the reader here?
> > >
> > > Reference to the Sieve document?
> >
> > If that's where the security considerations for sieve scripts are 
> > located - that would be fine.
>
> After thinking more about this: RFC 5228 (Sieve base) doesn't describe how 
> Sieve scripts are stored and how to handle failure to retrieve them - this 
> is out of scope for both documents. However I can add an example of what I 
> meant here - if a Sieve script is stored in LDAP and the script can't be 
> retrieved when a message is processed, then the agent performing Sieve 
> processing can, for example, assume that the script doesn't exist, or 
> delay message delivery until the script can be retrieved successfully. 
> Annotations should be treated as if they are a part of the script itself, 
> so a temporary failure to retrieve them should be handled in the same way 
> as a temporary failure to retrieve the Sieve script itself.


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