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Re: [imap5] Feature set? - was Re: Designing a new replacement protocol for IMAP

Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> Thu, 16 February 2012 07:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [imap5] Feature set? - was Re: Designing a new replacement protocol for IMAP
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On 16/02/2012 7:56 p.m., Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> On 02/15/2012 11:25 PM, Dave Cridland wrote:
>> This mailing list is "Discussion on drastically slimming-down IMAP", and
>> you've listed the properties of ACAP, SIEVE, IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV *and*
>> Submission, and then thrown in a kitchen sink too.
> As I see it, he's listed features which are in the Exchange protocol and
> in the unnamed protocol spoken by gmail's javascript heap and its
> mothership.
>
> That makes them worthy of discussion.
>
> I know IETF dogma is that protocols shouldn't overlap. But it's a weak
> kind of dogma: IMAP overlaps with POP, POP overlaps with Submission,
> various IMAP extensions with ACAP and what's that about IMSP? I could go on.

actually with a layered approach, this dogma could be maintained, as the 
facilities would be able to be specified separately.

Would be interesting to see wire-line protocol on GMail - I bet they use 
Json

Regards

Adrien


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