Re: [Extra] Benjamin Kaduk's No Objection on draft-ietf-extra-imap-replace-02: (with COMMENT)

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Wed, 24 October 2018 02:24 UTC

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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 21:23:58 -0500
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Stuart Brandt <stujenerin@aol.com>
Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, draft-ietf-extra-imap-replace@ietf.org, Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmailteam.com>, extra-chairs@ietf.org, extra@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: [Extra] Benjamin Kaduk's No Objection on draft-ietf-extra-imap-replace-02: (with COMMENT)
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 10:18:49PM -0400, Stuart Brandt wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback. Comments inline.
> 
> On 10/23/2018 5:16 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> > Benjamin Kaduk has entered the following ballot position for
> > draft-ietf-extra-imap-replace-02: No Objection
> >
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> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > COMMENT:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Section 1
> >
> > (RFC 8174 provides an updated version of the BCP 14 boilerplate that can be
> > used instead of the RFC 2119 boilerplate.)
> >
> > Section 3.5
> >
> >     Unlike the APPEND command which is valid in the authenticated state,
> >     the REPLACE and UID REPLACE commands MUST only be valid in the
> >     selected state.  This difference from APPEND is necessary since
> >     REPLACE operates on message sequence numbers.
> >
> > The stated justification applies only to REPLACE.  What is the
> > justification for disallowing UID REPLACE from the authenticated state?
> 
> The syntax of REPLACE identifies the source message's Mailbox by means 
> of the currently selected Mailbox, thus requiring Selected state.
> 
> An optional source-mailbox parameter could be added to the syntax just 
> for the UID REPLACE case, but other UID command variants such as those 
> discussed in RFC3501 section 6.4.8 chose not to introduce UID specific 
> syntax for specifying source-mailbox in order to support actions from 
> Authenticated state alone. I'd prefer not to forge new ground in that 
> area with this particular specification.

I probably should have made it clear: I also prefer to not forge such new
ground in this specification.  But does it make sense to make a nod to this
reality in the document and note that this restriction is also applied to
UID REPLACE for consistency?

Thanks,

Benjamin