Re: [ietf-smtp] Proposed agenda for EMAILCORE BOF

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 7/23/20 1:14 PM, Michael Peddemors wrote:

>
>>> Would you include DMARC, and the new list-friendly version, of which 
>>> I know
>>> little?
>>
>> My strong preference would be to include none of these, and only SMTP 
>> and MIME specifications.
>>
>> Keith
>
> If you limit to SMTP and MIME, this isn't really 'email core'.
> Including IMAP and possibly others, should be encouraged.

I disagree, and for what it's worth, that's not what I had understood 
the intent of the group to be.

If it's necessary to change the name of the group to minimize confusion, 
so be it.

I believe that a tight focus is essential for most working groups, and 
especially so for a group that's tasked with moving a set of mature 
documents to Full Standard.   I don't think such a group should be used 
to bless potentially every email protocol in use, as IMO they vary a 
great deal in both quality and long-term applicability.   I think such a 
group could easily slide down a slippery slope into a huge rathole.

But it does seem like a scope discussion might be a good use of BOF 
time, assuming the ADs are willing at all to entertain the idea of 
making EMAILCORE wider in scope than just SMTP and MIME.

Keith