[rfc-dist] RFC 7017 on IMAP Access to IETF Email List Archives

[rfc-editor at rfc-editor.org (RFC Editor)]

Resending the announcement.  RFC 7017 has been available since it
was originally announced.

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 05:07:40PM -0700, RFC Editor wrote:
> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
> 
>         
>         RFC 7017
> 
>         Title:      IMAP Access to IETF Email List Archives 
>         Author:     R. Sparks
>         Status:     Informational
>         Stream:     IETF
>         Date:       August 2013
>         Mailbox:    rjsparks at nostrum.com
>         Pages:      5
>         Characters: 9886
>         Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
> 
>         I-D Tag:    draft-sparks-genarea-imaparch-08.txt
> 
>         URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7017.txt
> 
> The IETF makes heavy use of email lists to conduct its work.  This
> often involves accessing the archived history of those email lists.
> Participants would like to have the ability to browse and search
> those archives using standard IMAP clients.  This memo captures the
> requirements for providing a service that would allow such browsing
> and searching, and it is intended as input to a later activity for
> the design and development of such a service.
> 
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