Re: [dtn] draft-blanchet-dtn-email-over-bp-00.txt

> Le 17 janv. 2023 à 18:04, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> a écrit :
> 
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> Interesting, and brings back memories from a decade ago!

Yeap. Watch my next one coming soon ;-)

> 
> When we did email/DTN we found it more useful to sync the
> (diff in the) content of Maildir message stores using the
> BP and not the individual messages. There're a whole pile
> of reasons for that, e.g., preserving the "read" flag if
> the mail's been read from different MUAs etc., but it was
> also a much better way to integrate with real world mail
> services.

Cool. But a drawback to me is that it seems that the solution you are describing is a bit implementation specific. I was trying pretty hard to stick to protocols, so it is more clean and interoperable. Our goal, as a community, now is to standardize stuff to achieve a high level of interoperability.  And includes the assignment of a service number so all implementations expect the same payload at the same place...

Having said that, I would love to get the info. Have you done an internet-draft describing it.

> 
> If it were of interest, I'm sure we could dig up more of
> the detail as to how we did that in the N4C project, but
> I can say that it worked - while I was on the IESG I read
> my (then voluminous:-) mail via DTN in the arctic for a
> couple of weeks while hiking about in various places all
> >50km from a cell tower.

Cool. 

Marc.

> 
> Cheers,
> S.
> 
> On 17/01/2023 22:56, Marc Blanchet wrote:
>> Please consider this work. Looking for comments.
>> Regards, Marc.
>>> Début du message transféré :
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> A new version of I-D, draft-blanchet-dtn-email-over-bp-00.txt
>>> has been successfully submitted by Marc Blanchet and posted to the
>>> IETF repository.
>>> 
>>> Name:		draft-blanchet-dtn-email-over-bp
>>> Revision:	00
>>> Title:		Encapsulation of Email over Delay-Tolerant Networks(DTN) using the Bundle Protocol
>>> Document date:	2023-01-17
>>> Group:		Individual Submission
>>> Pages:		5
>>> URL:            https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-blanchet-dtn-email-over-bp-00.txt
>>> Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-blanchet-dtn-email-over-bp/
>>> Html:           https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-blanchet-dtn-email-over-bp-00.html
>>> Htmlized:       https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-blanchet-dtn-email-over-bp
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Abstract:
>>>   This document describes the encapsulation of emails using RFC5322
>>>   format in the payload of bundles of the Bundle Protocol for the use
>>>   case of Delay-Tolerant Networks(DTN) such as in space communications.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The IETF Secretariat
>>> 
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