Concluded WG Enhancements to Internet email to Support Diverse Service Environments (lemonade)

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WG Name Enhancements to Internet email to Support Diverse Service Environments
Acronym lemonade
Area Applications Area (app)
State Concluded
Charter charter-ietf-lemonade-03 Approved
Document dependencies
Additional resources Additional LEMONADE Web Page
Personnel Chairs Eric Burger, Glenn Parsons
Secretary Alexey Melnikov
Mailing list Address lemonade@ietf.org
To subscribe lemonade-request@ietf.org
Archive https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/lemonade

Final Charter for Working Group

Lemonade is tasked to provide a set of enhancements and profiles of
Internet email submission, transport, and retrieval protocols to
facilitate operation on platforms with constrained resources, or
communications links with high latency or limited bandwidth. A primary
goal of this work is to ensure that those profiles and enhancements
continue to interoperate with the existing Internet email protocols in
use on the Internet, so that these environments and more traditional
Internet users have access to a seamless service.

Lemonade's work is at the crossroads of a body of work related to
Internet messaging, in particular work done by the VPIM, FAX, and
IMAPEXT IETF working groups. Given the potentially broad scope of
activities this group could engage in, the group will focus
specifically on the following work items:

  1. An informational RFC or RFCs will be produced on LEMONADE
    architecture and the issues it seeks to address.

  2. Enhance the existing IMAP4 message retrieval and message submission
    (RFC 2476) protocols to satisfy the requirements for handling
    streaming
    multimedia content. The existing standards-track CONNEG framework will
    be used if content negotiation capabilities are needed. The group will
    employ existing protocols (such as for streaming) with IMAP4 instead
    of
    duplicating such functionality within IMAP4.

  3. Enhance the existing IMAP4 message retrieval and/or message
    submission (RFC 2476) protocols to satisfy the requirements for
    forwarding a message and/or its attachments without downloading
    the message to the client and subsequently uploading the message to a
    server.

  4. Refine the existing IMAP4 message retrieval protocol to facilitate
    its use with devices that have limited capabilities such as mobile
    endpoints. At most one backwards compatible profile of IMAP4 will be
    produced by this effort.

  5. Define a format for message notifications for servers reporting
    message status information to other servers. Specify the method for
    delivery of those notifications.

  6. Create a specification describing the use of Internet message
    services in environments where message delivery may take place using
    either Internet protocols or through an MMS server using WAP to
    communicate with the receiving user agent.

Any protocols defined by this working group will include appopriate
security mechanisms, including authentication, privacy, and access
control. Mandatory-to-implement security mechanisms will be specified
as needed in order to guarantee secure protocol interoperability.

The transport area will be consulted to deal with any transport-related
issues that arise, especially in regards to items 1-4 above.

The IAB is currently working on the specification of general
guidelines
and requirements for notification services. Once complete this work
will be used as input to item 4 above.

The working group is aware of several related activities in other
groups:

The goal is to coordinate efforts with at least these groups as
required.

While there is obvious synergy, given the end-of-life of the VPIM and
FAX work groups and the similar membership, the working group does not
expect to coordinate with these other groups.

Done milestones

Date Milestone Associated documents
Done Submit Profile bis document to the IESG
Done Submit IMAP4 extensions for streaming multimedia to the IESG
Done Submit Notification Architecture to the IESG
Done Submit IMAP NOTIFY Extension to the IESG
Done Submit Notification Format to the IESG
Done Submit URLFETCH BINARY Extension to the IESG
Done Submit IMAP Sieve Extensions to IESG
Done Submit Body Conversions to IESG
Done Submit contextual mailboxes extension to the IESG
Done Submit Message Events to IESG
Done Submit Update to RFC 2192 (IMAP URL) to the IESG
Done Submit Quick Reconnect extension to the IESG
Done Submit IMAP CONVERT extension to the IESG
Done Submit SASL-IR IMAP4 extension to the IESG
Done Submit IMAP WITHIN Search extension to the IESG
Done Submit Deployment Considerations to the IESG
Done Submit IMAP COMPRESS Extension to the IESG
Done Submit IMAP4 profile for mobile devices to the IESG
Done Submit IMAP/SUBMIT extensions for forward without download to IESG
Done Submit translation to other messaging systems to the IESG
Done Submit server to server notification requirements to the IESG
Done Submit LEMONADE goals and use-cases specification to the IESG