Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART review of draft-melnikov-sieve-imapext-metadata-08

Hi, Alexey,

That would be great - and thanks for continuing to think about my comments.

Spencer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexey Melnikov" <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
To: "Spencer Dawkins" <spencer@wonderhamster.org>
Cc: <ietf@ietf.org>; "General Area Review Team" <gen-art@ietf.org>; "Lisa 
Dusseault" <lisa@osafoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: Gen-ART review of draft-melnikov-sieve-imapext-metadata-08

> Spencer Dawkins wrote:
>
>> Hi, Alexey,
>
> Hi Spencer,
>
>> Thanks for the quick response back... now I can remember what I said in 
>> the review ;-)
>>
>> Spencer
>>
>>> Spencer Dawkins wrote:
>>
> [...]
>
>>>> 5.  Security Considerations
>>>>
>>>>   Extensions defined in this document deliberately don't provide a way
>>>>   to modify annotations.
>>>>
>>>> Spencer: The next two paragraphs punt to "same as sieve script" - could 
>>>> you
>>>> provide a specific reference for the reader here?
>>>
>>> Reference to the Sieve document?
>>
>> If that's where the security considerations for sieve scripts are 
>> located - that would be fine.
>
> After thinking more about this: RFC 5228 (Sieve base) doesn't describe how 
> Sieve scripts are stored and how to handle failure to retrieve them - this 
> is out of scope for both documents. However I can add an example of what I 
> meant here - if a Sieve script is stored in LDAP and the script can't be 
> retrieved when a message is processed, then the agent performing Sieve 
> processing can, for example, assume that the script doesn't exist, or 
> delay message delivery until the script can be retrieved successfully. 
> Annotations should be treated as if they are a part of the script itself, 
> so a temporary failure to retrieve them should be handled in the same way 
> as a temporary failure to retrieve the Sieve script itself.
>
> 

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