Re: [art] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-mdn-3798bis-13.txt

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

On 16/10/2016 13:19, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the ART Area General Applications Working Group of the IETF.
> 
>         Title           : Message Disposition Notification
>         Authors         : Tony Hansen
>                           Alexey Melnikov
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-appsawg-mdn-3798bis-13.txt
> 	Pages           : 36
> 	Date            : 2016-10-16
> 
> Abstract:
>    This memo defines a MIME content-type that may be used by a mail user
>    agent (MUA) or electronic mail gateway to report the disposition of a
>    message after it has been successfully delivered to a recipient.
>    This content-type is intended to be machine-processable.  Additional
>    message header fields are also defined to permit Message Disposition
>    Notifications (MDNs) to be requested by the sender of a message.  The
>    purpose is to extend Internet Mail to support functionality often
>    found in other messaging systems, such as X.400 and the proprietary
>    "LAN-based" systems, and often referred to as "read receipts,"
>    "acknowledgements", or "receipt notifications."  The intention is to
>    do this while respecting privacy concerns, which have often been
>    expressed when such functions have been discussed in the past.
> 
>    Because many messages are sent between the Internet and other
>    messaging systems (such as X.400 or the proprietary "LAN-based"
>    systems), the MDN protocol is designed to be useful in a multi-
>    protocol messaging environment.  To this end, the protocol described
>    in this memo provides for the carriage of "foreign" addresses, in
>    addition to those normally used in Internet Mail.  Additional
>    attributes may also be defined to support "tunneling" of foreign
>    notifications through Internet Mail.
> 
>    This document obsoletes RFC 3798, moving it to Internet Standard.  It
>    also updates RFC 2046 (message/partial Media Type handling) and RFC
>    3461 (Original-Recipient header field generation requirement).
> 
> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-mdn-3798bis/
> 
> There's also a htmlized version available at:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-mdn-3798bis-13
> 
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-appsawg-mdn-3798bis-13

Versions -13 and -14 address most of the comments raised by Ben in his
AD review. Also, I removed the "Failure" field as the "failed" MDN type
was removed some time ago.