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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Terry Gray/UWash
Minutes of the Interactive Mail Access Protocol BOF (IMAP)
Agenda
o Introductions
o Draft Working Group Charter
o Discussion
Results
There was general agreement that the focus of the proposed working group
should be to refine and extend the existing IMAP2/IMAP2bis protocol,
hopefully without breaking the installed base of IMAP2-capable software.
The wording of the proposed working group Charter was deemed generally
acceptable.
A list of desired IMAP extensions was made. Many of the proposed
features appear to be within the scope of the CMU IMSP (Interactive Mail
Support Protocol) project, rather than IMAP. Also, some are likely to be
incompatible with current software.
It was clear that disconnected operation, ala DMSP/PC-Mail, was a very
high priority.
Wish List
o Support for disconnected operation
o Off-line sorting of mailbox
o Background server searching and sorting
o Shared mailbox per-user state (like a .newsrc, but for mailboxes)
o Function to determine where to submit messages
o Storage/retrieval of MUA configuration data
o Minimal non-plain text authentication
o Minimal confidentiality (XOR with shared secret)
o Test assertion that PEM does not affect IMAP
o Remote printing (from IMAP server's copy of msg)
o Improved searching
Next Steps
The proposed Charter, with minor modifications, will soon be submitted
to the IETF Application Area Directors for endorsement and forwarding to
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the IESG for approval as a working group
The wish list will be combined with other input and categorized
according to scope, compatibility, etc.
References
To subscribe to the IMAP Mailing list, send your request to:
<imap-request@cac.washington.edu>
Attendees
Karl Auerbach karl@empirical.com
Sandy Bryant slb@virginia.edu
William Chung whchung@watson.ibm.com
James Conklin jbc@bitnic.educom.edu
Mark Davis-Craig mad@merit.edu
Roger Fajman raf@cu.nih.gov
Ned Freed ned@innosoft.com
Terry Gray gray@cac.washington.edu
Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
Steven Hubert hubert@cac.washington.edu
David Katinsky dmk@pilot.njin.net
Sylvain Langlois Sylvain.Langlois@exp.edf.fr
Bob Morgan morgan@networking.stanford.edu
Robert Reschly reschly@brl.mil
Marshall Rose mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us
Carl Schoeneberger 70410.3563@Compuserve.com
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