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Editor's Note: Minutes received 7/31
CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Russ Hobby/UC Davis
Minutes of the Email Requirements BOF (MAILREQ)
The BOF was started with several questions about working on email
requirements.
WHY? Because the protocols do not specify everything. No one document
puts all the information in one place.
WHAT? Scope to look at: Internet? Email World? Gateways? Audience:
Implementors? Operators? Users? Documents: How many and what?
HOW? Next step beyond the BOF?
WHO? There needs to be a Working Group Chair. There needs to be writers
for the documents.
The Group came up with a gripe/wish list to focus on what work should be
done and what documents would be written. The list was:
1. Email flow control
2. Clarify 822 ambiguities
3. Better/standard error messages and tracking
4. Guidelines for handling violations
5. Management of list exploders
6. Duplicate suppression
7. Server command sets
8. Distributed message storage
9. Email API
10. Verify that recipient exists
11. Common Terminology
12. Email MIB
13. Automatic verification of delivery/reading
14. Multipath elimination
15. Email routing protocol
16. Vacation mail requirements
17. Retry and reporting requirements
18. Know when a message comes from a list
19. Postmaster behavior requirements
20. Dynamic and more detailed MX
21. Human readable errors
22. Email/directory interface.
There was discussion of several possible documents that could be
produced. There was general agreement that there really needs to be a
document or group of documents that define an overall email
architecture. This would help us describe where we are with email today
and provide direction for work. It was also suggested that we think of
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email messages as "Big Packets" and use some of the technology that we
now use for our packet networks in the email world.
Suggested documents were:
1. Email Architecture (three possible documents)
o The Big Email Picture (General email components and
terminology)
o Internet Email Architecture (SMTP/822/MIME/...)
o Email Gateways
2. "Packet" Email System
3. Email MIB
4. Listserve Command Syntax
5. List Behavior and Management
6. Error Messages and Handling
7. Implementor's Email Requirements
8. Email/Directory Interface
9. How to find an Email Address
10. Quality of Email Service
There was agreement that these issue urgently need addressing and that a
Working Group should be formed. The following mail list will be created
for further discussion:
ietf-mailreq@ucdavis.edu for Group discussion
ietf-mailreq-request@ucdavis.edu for list adds and drops
Attendees
Mark Bokhan bokhan@abitok.enet.dec.com
Luc Boulianne lucb@cs.mcgill.ca
James Conklin jbc@bitnic.educom.edu
David Crocker dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu
Roger Fajman raf@cu.nih.gov
Jill Foster jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk
Ned Freed ned@innosoft.com
Tony Genovese genovese@nersc.gov
Terry Gray gray@cac.washington.edu
Alf Hansen Alf.Hansen@delab.sintef.no
Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
Tim Howes Tim.Howes@umich.edu.
Erik Huizer huizer@surfnet.nl
Todd Kaehler kaehler@zk3.dec.com
Neil Katin katin@eng.sun.com
David Katinsky dmk@rutgers.edu
John Klensin klensin@infoods.mit.edu
Jim Knowles jknowles@trident.arc.nasa.gov
Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu
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John Murray murray@premenos.sf.ca.us
Michael Patton map@lcs.mit.edu
Michael Powell mdpowel@pacbell.com
Anthony Rutkowski amr@sprint.com
Tim Seaver tas@concert.net
Mark Smith mcs@umich.edu
Gregory Vaudreuil gvaudre@nri.reston.va.us
John Wagner jwagner@princeton.edu
Fred Ziegler ziegler@aspentec.com
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