Detailed Revision/Update of Message Standards (drums) ----------------------------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 27-Oct-97 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): C Newman Applications Area Director(s): Keith Moore Harald Alvestrand Applications Area Advisor: Keith Moore Mailing Lists: General Discussion:drums@cs.utk.edu To Subscribe: drums-request@cs.utk.edu Archive: ftp://cs.utk.edu/pub/drums/mail-archive/ Description of Working Group: The goal of this working group is to develop and review revised versions of RFC 821 and RFC 822, incorporating the revisions in RFC 974, RFC 1123, and RFC 1651. In addition, the group will review other RFCs related to messaging, and determine the applicability of each of these to the future direction of the messaging in the Internet. The group may choose to incorporate, deprecate, or write applicability statements for such documents, as necessary to produce a clear statement of requirements for overall interoperability of Internet electronic mail. The documents produced by the working group are intended to be submitted to the IESG for consideration as Internet Standards. Items appropriate for inclusion in documents produced by the working group include corrections, clarifications, and amplifications to reflect existing practice or to address problems which have been identified through experience with Internet mail protocols. New functionality is expressly inappropriate. Goals and Milestones: Done Issue a first Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document. Done Issue a first Internet-Draft of the ABNF document. Done Issue a second Interent-Draft of the revised SMTP document. Done Issue a second Internet-Draft of the ABNF document. Done Issue a first Internet-Draft of the revised message format document. Done Issue a third Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document. Done Issue a third Internet-Draft of the ABNF document. Done Issue a second Internet-Draft of the revised message format document. Done Issue a fourth Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document. Done Meet at Memphis IETF May 97 Issue a final Internet Draft of ABNF document. May 97 Issue a fifth Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document. May 97 Issue a third Internet-Draft of the revised message format document. Jul 97 Issue a final Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document. Jul 97 Issue a final Internet-Draft of the revised message format document. Aug 97 Meet at Munich IETF. Aug 97 Submit documents to IESG for publication as RFCs. Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- ------------------------------------------ Nov 95 Aug 97 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Mar 96 Oct 97 Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF Nov 96 Aug 97 Mail and Netnews Header Registration Procedure Nov 96 Jun 97 Message Format Standard Oct 97 New Use of Reply-To in Internet E-Mail messages Request For Comments: None to date.