Detailed Revision/Update of Message Standards (drums) Charter
NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 37th IETF Meeting in San Jose. It
may now be out-of-date. (Consider this a "snapshot" of the working
group from that meeting.) Up-to-date charters for all active working
groups can be found elsewhere in this Web server.
Chair(s)
- Chris Newman <chris.newman@innosoft.com>
Applications Area Director(s):
- Keith Moore <moore+iesg@cs.utk.edu>
- Harald Alvestrand <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
Area Advisor
- Harald Alvestrand <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
Mailing List Information
- General Discussion:drums@cs.utk.edu
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Description of Working Group
The goal of this working group is to develop and review revised
versions of RFC 821 and RFC 822, incorporating the revisions in RFC
974, RFC 1123, and RFC 1651.
In addition, the group will review other RFCs related to messaging, and
determine the applicability of each of these to the future direction of
the messaging in the Internet. The group may choose to incorporate,
deprecate, or write applicability statements for such documents, as
necessary to produce a clear statement of requirements for overall
interoperability of Internet electronic mail.
The documents produced by the working group are intended to be
submitted to the IESG for consideration as Internet Standards.
Items appropriate for inclusion in documents produced by the working
group include corrections, clarifications, and amplifications to
reflect existing practice or to address problems which have been
identified through experience with Internet mail protocols. New
functionality is expressly inappropriate.
Goals and Milestones
- Nov 95
- Issue a first Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
- Mar 96
- Issue a first Internet-Draft of the ABNF document.
- Jun 96
- Issue a second Interent-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
- Oct 96
- Issue a second Internet-Draft of the ABNF document.
- Nov 96
- Issue a third Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
- Nov 96
- Issue a first Internet-Draft of the revised message format document.
- Dec 96
- Issue a third Internet-Draft of the ABNF document.
- Jan 97
- Issue a fourth Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
- Jan 97
- Issue a second Internet-Draft of the revised message format document.
- Feb 97
- Issue a final Internet Draft of ABNF document.
- Mar 97
- Issue a fifth Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
- Mar 97
- Issue a third Internet-Draft of the revised message format document.
- Apr 97
- Meet at Memphis IETF
- Jul 97
- Issue a final Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.
- Jul 97
- Issue a final Internet-Draft of the revised message format document.
- Aug 97
- Meet at Munich IETF.
- Aug 97
- Submit documents to IESG for publication as RFCs.
Current Internet-Drafts
No Request for Comments