Re: [MORG] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC6154 (5431)

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

Write an update RFC.  Or we’ll put it into rev4.2

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 6:33 PM Bron Gondwana <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> Fair enough! Is there a better way to say "if you're implementing now,
> please do this to get best interop"?
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018, at 08:26, Barry Leiba wrote:
>
> > There exist clients which send a non-extended LIST command and will
>
> > correctly display and interact with mailboxes usefully if their
>
> > special-uses are given in the response.
>
> >
>
> > Because of this, many servers are already replying with the special-use
>
> > attributes, and there are no known reports of clients being broken by
>
> > that behaviour.  Because of this, the MAY should be raised to a SHOULD,
>
> > and server implementations should default to turning this on.
>
>
> That may (ahem) be true now, but the document says exactly what we
> intended it to say when it was written.
>
>
> Alexey, please mark this report REJECTED.
>
>
> Barry
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 5:51 PM RFC Errata System <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
>
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC6154,
> "IMAP LIST Extension for Special-Use Mailboxes".
>
> --------------------------------------
> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5431
>
> --------------------------------------
> Type: Editorial
> Reported by: Bron Gondwana <[e-mail]>
>
> Section: 2
>
> Original Text
> -------------
> An IMAP server that supports this extension MAY include any or all of
> the following attributes in responses to the non-extended IMAP LIST
> command.
>
> Corrected Text
> --------------
> An IMAP server that supports this extension SHOULD include any or all of
> the following attributes in responses to the non-extended IMAP LIST
> command.
>
> Notes
> -----
> There exist clients which send a non-extended LIST command and will
> correctly display and interact with mailboxes usefully if their
> special-uses are given in the response.
>
> Because of this, many servers are already replying with the special-use
> attributes, and there are no known reports of clients being broken by that
> behaviour.  Because of this, the MAY should be raised to a SHOULD, and
> server implementations should default to turning this on.
>
> Instructions:
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>
> --------------------------------------
> RFC6154 (draft-ietf-morg-list-specialuse-06)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : IMAP LIST Extension for Special-Use Mailboxes
> Publication Date    : March 2011
> Author(s)           : B. Leiba, J. Nicolson
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : Message Organization
> Area                : Applications
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG
>
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> Barry
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>
>
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>
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