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Concluded WG Sieve Mail Filtering Language (sieve)

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WG Name Sieve Mail Filtering Language
Acronym sieve
Area Applications Area (app)
State Concluded
Charter charter-ietf-sieve-05 Approved
Document dependencies
Additional resources Issue tracker, Wiki
Personnel Chairs Aaron Stone, Cyrus Daboo
Area Director Pete Resnick
Secretary Barry Leiba
Mailing list Address sieve@ietf.org
To subscribe sieve-request@ietf.org
Archive https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/sieve

Final Charter for Working Group

The SIEVE email filtering language is specified in RFC 5228, together
with a number of extensions.

The SIEVE working group is being re-chartered to:

(1) Finish work on existing in-progress Working Group documents:
(a) External lists (draft-ietf-sieve-external-lists)
(b) Notify SIP (draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message)
(c) RegEx (draft-ietf-sieve-regex)
(d) Include/multi-script (draft-ietf-sieve-include)
(e) Sieve in IMAP (draft-ietf-sieve-imap-sieve)

(2) Finalize and publish the following SIEVE extensions as proposed
standards:
(a) General Auto-reply (draft-george-sieve-autoreply)
(b) Notify presence (draft-george-sieve-notify-presence)
(c) Vacation time (draft-george-sieve-vacation-time)
(d) Convert messages (draft-melnikov-sieve-convert)

Additional drafts may be added to this list, but only via a charter
revision. There must also be demonstrable willingness in the SIEVE
development community to actually implement a given extension before it
can be added to this charter.

(3) Work on a specification for iCalendar and vCard extraction, and
cooperate with the VCARDDAV WG for address book tests in Sieve.

(4) Work on a specification to describe how EAI/IDN issues should be
handled in SIEVE.

(5) Work on a "Benefits of SIEVE" guide for client and server vendors
that:
(a) Describes the SIEVE protocol and its suite of extensions.
(b) Explains the benefits of server-side filtering in practical terms.
(c) Shows how client-side filtering can be migrated to SIEVE.

(6) Produce one or more informational RFCs containing a set of test
scripts and test email messages that are to be filtered by the scripts,
and the expected results of that filtering. This will serve as the basis
of a interoperability test suite to help determine the suitability of
moving the base specification and selected extensions to Draft status.

Milestones

Date Milestone Associated documents
Apr 2011 Submit test-scripts to IESG
Mar 2011 WGLC test-scripts
Jan 2011 Submit benefits to IESG
Nov 2010 Submit eai-issues to IESG
Nov 2010 WGLC benefits
Oct 2010 WGLC eai-issues
Sep 2010 Submit RegEx to IESG
Aug 2010 Initial test-scripts draft
Aug 2010 WGLC RegEx
Aug 2010 Initial benefits draft
Jul 2010 Initial eai-issues draft
Jul 2010 Submit Notify-sip to IESG
Jun 2010 WGLC Notify-sip
Jun 2010 Submit Include/multi-script to IESG
May 2010 Submit external-lists to IESG
May 2010 WGLC Include/multi-script
Apr 2010 Revised Include/multi-script draft
Apr 2010 WGLC external-lists

Done milestones

Date Milestone Associated documents
Done Publish Sieve in XML - RFC 5784
Done Publish mime loops - RFC 5703
Done Publish meta-data - RFC 5490
Done Publish ihave - RFC 5463
Done Publish notify xmpp extension - RFC 5437
Done Publish notify mailto extension - RFC 5436
Done Publish notify base spec - RFC 5435
Done Publish refuse/reject - RFC 5429
Done Revised RegEx draft
Done Submit Metadata to IESG
Done WGLC Metadata
Done Submit ManageSIEVE to IESG
Done WGLC ManageSIEVE
Done Submit sieve-in-xml to IESG
Done Submit Notary to IESG
Done WGLC sieve-in-xml
Done Submit iHave to IESG
Done WGLC Notary
Done WGLC iHave
Done Submit mime-loops to IESG
Done Submit notify-mailto to IESG
Done Submit refuse-reject to IESG
Done Submit notification action draft to IESG
Done WG last call for notification action draft
Done Submit body test draft to IESG
Done Submit 3028bis to IESG
Done Submit editheader draft to IESG
Done Submit imapflags draft to IESG
Done Submit revised subaddress draft to IESG
Done Submit revised spamtest draft to IESG
Done Submit vacation draft to IESG
Done WG last call of revised subaddress draft
Done Submit revised relational draft to IESG
Done WG last call of revised relational draft
Done Submit revised loop draft
Done WG last call for vacation draft
Done WG last call for imap-flags draft
Done Submit revised notification action draft
Done Submit variables draft to IESG
Done WG last call for refuse draft
Done WG last call of revised spamtest draft
Done WG last call for body test draft.
Done Submit revised body test draft.
Done WG last call of revised subaddress draft.
Done WG last call for editheader draft.
Done Submit revised reject before delivery draft.
Done Submit revised imapflags draft.
Done Submit revised editheader draft.
Done Initial submission of revised spamtest/virustest draft.
Done Initial submission of revised subaddress draft.
Done Initial submission of revised relational draft.
Done WG last call for RFC 3028bis.
Done Initial submission of RFC 3028bis.
Done WG last call for variables draft.
Done Submit revised vacation draft.
Done Submit revised variables draft.