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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Terry Gray/UWash
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- Minutes of the Interactive Mail Access Protocol BOF (IMAP)
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- Agenda
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- o Introductions
- o Draft Working Group Charter
- o Discussion
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- Results
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- 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.
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- The wording of the proposed working group Charter was deemed generally
- acceptable.
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- 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.
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- It was clear that disconnected operation, ala DMSP/PC-Mail, was a very
- high priority.
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- Wish List
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- 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
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- Next Steps
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- 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
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- The wish list will be combined with other input and categorized
- according to scope, compatibility, etc.
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- References
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- To subscribe to the IMAP Mailing list, send your request to:
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- <imap-request@cac.washington.edu>
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- Attendees
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- 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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