Re: [lemonade] IMAP NOTIFY and IDLE

[Mark Crispin <mrc at CAC.Washington.EDU>]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Ned Freed wrote:
> Frankly, we'd be a lot better off spending less time trying to establish 
> requirements that are going to be ignored in significant cases of 
> interest and instead spend more time figuring out how to specify client 
> and server behavior that makes devices actually work well with the 
> networks they are likely to face in the real world, nasty though they 
> may be.

I agree completely.  Entirely too much of the past several years' of work 
seems to be focused on undoing the earliest design decisions of IMAP, 
while pretending that the real world considerations that led to those 
design decisions are unimportant.

Successful efforts work within the framework that exists.  Unsuccessful 
efforts attempt to glom a different and totally incompatible framework on 
top of the existing framework.

-- Mark --

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