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:

<[email protected]>

Attendees

Karl Auerbach            [email protected]
Sandy Bryant             [email protected]
William Chung            [email protected]
James Conklin            [email protected]
Mark Davis-Craig         [email protected]
Roger Fajman             [email protected]
Ned Freed                [email protected]
Terry Gray               [email protected]
Russ Hobby               [email protected]
Steven Hubert            [email protected]
David Katinsky           [email protected]
Sylvain Langlois         [email protected]
Bob Morgan               [email protected]
Robert Reschly           [email protected]
Marshall Rose            [email protected]
Carl Schoeneberger       [email protected]



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