Protocol Action: Post Office Protocol - Version 3 to Draft Standard

IESG Secretary <iesg-secretary@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> Thu, 27 May 1993 20:16 UTC

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From: IESG Secretary <iesg-secretary@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
Subject: Protocol Action: Post Office Protocol - Version 3 to Draft Standard
Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 16:16:23 -0400
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  The IESG has approved the Internet Draft "Post Office Protocol - 
  Version 3" <draft-rose-pop3-01.txt> as a Draft Standard. This 
  document is a revision of RFC1225, a Draft Standard Protocol.
  The IESG contact person is Erik Huizer.

Technical Summary
 
  POP3 is currently a draft standard (RFC 1225) for remote mailbox
  retrieval.

  This revision of POP3 replaced the optional RPOP authentication
  scheme (which uses "privileged TCP" ports) with a different optional
  scheme, APOP, based on MD5, shared-secrets, and challenge-strings.

Working Group Summary

  This edit to POP3 consisted primarily of typographic corrections,
  along with the change in optional authentication schemes.  As such, a
  working group was not needed.

Protocol Quality

  POP3 is extensively implemented and widely-deployed.  The APOP
  authentication scheme, while new, has been implemented in three
  different packages for nearly a year.

Protocol Action: Post Office Protocol - Version 3… IESG Secretary
Protocol Action: Post Office Protocol - Version 3… IESG Secretary