Re: [MORG] WGLC on draft-ietf-morg-inthread-00

[Cyrus Daboo <cyrus at daboo.name>]

Hi Timo,

--On February 13, 2009 5:50:53 PM -0500 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> The IMAP SEARCH=INTHREAD and THREAD=REFS Extensions
>
> <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-morg-inthread-00.txt>

Technically OK, but I was left wondering why the heck I would want to 
implement the new SEARCH capabilities if I were a client. I think the 
document needs to have more examples or concrete use cases to better 
explain why these changes are important and how clients would make use of 
them, and what the benefit to the server is to implement.

At this point in time I think every IMAP extension has got to do a good job 
"selling itself" - because a lot of people (not the crowd here) think IMAP 
is good enough and more extensions are just "bloat" that no one will really 
use. All the MORG documents have got to make a strong case for why their 
adoption is beneficial.

For this document an explanation of what clients are doing today with 
threads and IMAP protocol use with that vs what would happen with the new 
extension would go a long way to justifying implementing this.

--
Cyrus Daboo