WG ACTION: Mail Extensions Working Group

[IESG Secretary <[e-mail]>]

A new working group has been created in the Applications
Area of the IETF.  Contact the chair and/or the area
director for more information.

IESG Secretary


Mail Extensions (mailext)
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 Charter 
 
 Current status: active working group
 
 Chair(s):
     C. Allan Cargille  <[e-mail]>
 
 Applications Area Director(s): 
     John Klensin  <[e-mail]>
     Erik Huizer  <[e-mail]>
 
 Area Advisor
     John Klensin  <[e-mail]>
 
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Description of Working Group:
 

   The Mail Extensions Working Group will review, refine as
   needed, and then make a recommendation on standardization of several 
   recent proposals for standards-track compatible extensions to SMTP
   (via the Service Extensions mechanism), MIME (via new Content
   Subtypes), and MIME-MHS (via MIME Content Subtypes and usage rules).
 
   It will also act as the review body for several documents that
   clarify and provide applicability statements about the use of
   Internet mail: that work will ultimately lead to an update for the
   mail-related section of RFC 1123.  Part of that effort involves
   RARE WG-MSG documents that address the Internet's installed
   electronic mail infrastructure.  Since such documents should not
   be processed in RARE alone, this working group will act as the
   IETF focus for reviewing them.
 
   Initial drafts of all of the documents that the working group is
   expected to review have already been, or will soon be, published.
   The working group will be starting with documents that have been
   prepared as individual (or spontaneous design team) contributions.
   It is not expected to initiate new work. On the other hand, it is
   expected to make explicit "not ready for standardization" or
   "inappropriate for standardization" recommendations if that is
   appropriate.   

   Internet-Drafts
 
   The working group will be initialized with the following documents
   or their successors, listed alphabetically.  A major purpose of its
   first meeting is to prune or add to this list.
 
      draft-freed-ftpb-00.txt
      draft-freed-smtp-pipeline-00.txt
      draft-houttuin-mailservers-02.txt
      draft-rare-msg-a-bombs-00.txt
      draft-rare-msg-c-bombs-00.txt
      draft-vaudreuil-smtp-binary-04.txt
      draft-vaudreuil-smtp-stream-00.txt
 
 Goals and Milestones: 
 
   Jul 94 Meet at the Toronto IETF.  Review pending Internet-Drafts and decide 
          for each whether it is ready for processing to Proposed, should be 
          published as Experimental or Informational, should be discarded as a 
          working group effort, or should be a candidate for further working 
          group development.  Refine the charter and work plan.                

   Jul 94 Publish an Internet-Draft on mail transport clarifications.          

   Sep 94 Revised drafts and IESG processing of any documents that were 
          concluded in July to be ready for processing.                        

   Oct 94 Revised versions of specification documents identified as needing 
          further development published as Internet-Drafts and ready for 
          processing and final review.                                         

   Oct 94 Publication of revised versions of any documents that were concluded 
          in July to be ready to advance onto the standards track.             

   Dec 94 Final review of remaining specification documents during the San Jose
          IETF.  Penultimate review of clarifications and applicability 
          statements documents.                                                

   Jan 95 New Internet-Drafts of clarifications and applicability statements 
          documents.                                                           

   Jan 95 Final Internet-Drafts of specification documents ready for Last Call 
          and IESG processing to Proposed Standard.                            

   Apr 95 Final review on clarifications and applicability statements documents
          as Internet-Drafts during IETF.                                      

   May 95 Clarifications and applicability statements documents ready for Last 
          Call and IESG processing to Proposed Standard.