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- This is interesting. When you say canonical, do you mean as part of the
- IMAP standard so that all implementations should be able to deal with the
- heirarchy or is this for particular drivers? Seems like doing it for
- particular drivers could lead to interoperbility problems, though I
- certainly see it as desirable.
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- On 12 Jul 1993, Terry Gray wrote:
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- > 3. The user-visible namespace *must* support hierarchy, which means
- > a canonical path syntax must be defined, even though it may be relative
- > to a sysadmin-defined root, or a driver-defined abstract root.
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- > 4. We are really searching for a way to select an IMAP driver via the
- > name string syntax that goes across the wire. However, whatever means
- > is chosen to tell a driver that "this name's for you", the
- > requirement to support a hierarchical path (without using netnews dot
- > notation) is still with us.
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- > -teg
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