[Sml] Re: Structured Email and AI Agents

[John R Levine <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2025, Adam Sobieski wrote:
> That is a pleasant surprise that RFC 822's Sender header might cover these contemporary agentic use cases under discussion.
>
> I'm eager to learn more about how to properly formulate email headers for these scenarios — using existing ones, as possible — and about how one might effectively use structured emails to securely and efficiently switch protocols from email to, for instance, A2A. I'm interested in enabling the bootstrapping of agentic communication layers atop the email layer for which people already have one another's contact information.

That's great.  The RFCs and message archives are all online so there's 
nothing stopping you.

R's,
John

PS:

> One would, I think, tend to want to enable role-based addressing in Attention or Recipient headers as recipients' assistants' email addresses, if any, might not be known yet to senders or to their assistants. That's part of the "bootstrapping" mentioned above.

We have been sending mail that's handled by scripts forever.  You might 
look at the widely used procmail and maildrop programs as well as all the 
stuff people do with sieve.