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- Internet Mail Extensions (smtpext)
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- Charter
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- Chair(s):
- John Klensin <klensin@infoods.unu.edu>
- Ned Freed <ned@innosoft.com>
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- Applications Area Director(s)
- Brewster Kahle <Brewster@wais.com>
- Erik Huizer <huizer@surfnet.nl>
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- Mailing lists:
- General Discussion:ietf-smtp@dimacs.rutgers.edu
- To Subscribe: ietf-smtp-request@dimacs.rutgers.edu
- Archive: dimacs.rutgers.edu:~/pub/ietf/*
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- Description of Working Group:
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- The SMTP Extensions Working Group is chartered to develop extensions to the
- base SMTP protocol (RFC821) to facilitate the more efficient transmission of 8
- bit text and binary data. Among the extensions to be considered to SMTP are the
- elimination of the ASCII text character restriction and line length restriction
- to allow the sending of arbitrary 8 bit character sets, and the definition of
- mechanisms to facilitate binary transmission, and extensions to the
- negotiation sequence to facilitate batch transmission.
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- Goals and Milestones:
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- Done Review the Charter of the Group. Determine if changes to SMTP are
- necessary. Discuss the needs for backward compatability, and
- interoperability. This discussion will be held by email.
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- Done Discuss the elimination of the 7 bit restrictions in SMTP, and the
- implications of removing this restriction in terms of interoperation.
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- Done Discuss the issues involved with binary transmission. Determine
- whether a ``binary'' mode should be pursued, and whether the SMTP
- line length restriction should be eliminated.
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- Done Write a document specifying the changes to SMTP agreed to by the
- Group. Post as an Internet-Draft.
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- Done Review and finalize the SMTP Extensions document.
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- Done Submit the SMTP Extensions document as a Proposed Standard.
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- Internet Drafts:
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- No Current Internet drafts.
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- Request For Comments:
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- RFC Stat Published Title
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- RFC1428 Feb 93 Transition of Internet Mail from Just-Send-8 to
- 8Bit-SMTP/MIME
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- RFC1427 PS Feb 93 SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration
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- RFC1425 PS Feb 93 SMTP Service Extensions
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- RFC1426 PS Feb 93 SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport
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