Re: [MORG] I-D Action:draft-ietf-morg-multimailbox-search-01.txt

[Barry Leiba <barryleiba at computer.org>]

This version switches to the NOTIFY mailbox specification syntax, as
we decided at IETF 74, and it cleans up the ABNF and some other
wording.  Apart from having to write up the Security Considerations
section properly, I think it's done, but for one issue.  So I'd like
folks to review it and see if it's what we want.

The one issue: As noted in the sketched-out Security Considerations
section, at IETF 74 we had a discussion about possible using metadata
to refine the list of mailboxes.  Do we want to do that?  If so, we
can do it by adding a scope-option, but I'd like someone to take a
stab at some text for how it should go.  I'm thinking maybe we'd want
"include" and "exclude" scope options, which can refine the list that
results from the NOTIFY selectors.  And one of the things the
parameters to those options can specify is metadata matching.  Would
there be anything else?

Comments?

-- Barry

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:15 PM, <Internet-Drafts at ietf.org> wrote:
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Message Organization Working Group of the IETF.
>
>
>        Title           : IMAP4 Multimailbox SEARCH Extension
>        Author(s)       : B. Leiba, A. Melnikov
>        Filename        : draft-ietf-morg-multimailbox-search-01.txt
>        Pages           : 8
>        Date            : 2009-07-07
>
> The IMAP4 specification allows the searching only of the selected
> mailbox.  A user often wants to search multiple mailboxes, and a
> client that wishes to support this must issue a series of SELECT and
> SEARCH commands, waiting for each to complete before moving on to the
> next.  This extension allows a client to search multiple mailboxes
> with one command, limiting the round-trips and waiting for various
> searches to complete, and not requiring disruption of the currently
> selected mailbox.  This also uses MAILBOX and TAG fields in ESEARCH
> responses, allowing a client to pipeline the searches if it chooses.
>
> Note
>
> A revised version of this draft document will be submitted to the RFC
> editor as a Proposed Standard for the Internet Community.  Discussion
> and suggestions for improvement are requested, and should be sent to
> morg at ietf.org.
>
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