Revision of core Email specifications (emailcore) agenda for [virtual] Madrid.

Chairs:

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Seth Blank <seth@valimail.com>


WEDNESDAY, July 29, 2020 (UTC)
11:00-12:40 (1 hour 40 mins)


Agenda bashing, introduction, meeting format (chairs)             -  5 mins
Problem statement (chairs)                                        -  5 mins

Review of proposed changes to "Internet Message Format" (RFC 5322)
draft-resnick-rfc5322bis                                          - 15 mins

 Issue with ABNF for "field":    https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid2950
 Disallow empty quoted string:   https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid3135
 Header field name length limit: https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5918


Triage of raised issues for "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol" (RFC 5321)
draft-klensin-rfc5321bis                                          - 45 mins

Example topics:

 G.9.  Revisiting Quoted Strings

 G.1.  IP Address Literals in EHLO, MAIL or RCPT

 G.7.3.  Resolvable FQDNs and private domain names

 G.7.11.  Bring back 1yz reply codes?

 G.10.  Internationalization Consideration section needed?

 Recommended Extensions:
  G.8.  Enhanced Reply Codes and DSNs
  8BITMIME
  EAI

 G.6.  Clarify where the protocol stands with respect to submission and
       TLS issues

   1.  submission on port 587

   2.  submission on port 465

   3.  TLS relay on a port different from 25 (whenever)

 Terminology:
  G.3.  Meaning of "MTA" and Related Terminology
  G.7.2.  SMTP Model, terminology, and relationship to RFC 5598
  G.11.  SMTP Clients, Servers, Senders, and Receivers



High level discussion of how the proposed WG going to decide
which issues to tackle (chairs)                                   -  5 mins

Charter Review and discussion (chairs)                            - 25 mins