Detailed Revision/Update of Message Standards (drums)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2001-04-26

Current Status: Concluded Working Group

Chair(s):
    Chris Newman  <[email protected]>

Applications Area Director(s):
    Ned Freed  <[email protected]>
    Patrik Faltstrom  <[email protected]>

Applications Area Advisor:
    Ned Freed  <[email protected]>

Mailing Lists:
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Description of Working Group:

The goal of this working group is to develop and review revised
versions of RFC 821 and RFC 822, incorporating the revisions in RFC
974, RFC 1123, and RFC 1651.

In addition, the group will review other RFCs related to messaging, and
determine the applicability of each of these to the future direction of
the messaging in the Internet. The group may choose to incorporate,
deprecate, or write applicability statements for such documents, as
necessary to produce a clear statement of requirements for overall
interoperability of Internet electronic mail.

The documents produced by the working group are intended to be
submitted to the IESG for consideration as Internet Standards.

Items appropriate for inclusion in documents produced by the working
group include corrections, clarifications, and amplifications to
reflect existing practice or to address problems which have been
identified through experience with Internet mail protocols. New
functionality is expressly inappropriate.

Goals and Milestones:

  Done         Issue a first Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.

  Done         Issue a first Internet-Draft of the ABNF document.

  Done         Issue a second Interent-Draft of the revised SMTP document.

  Done         Issue a second Internet-Draft of the ABNF document.

  Done         Issue a first Internet-Draft of the revised message format
               document.

  Done         Issue a third Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.

  Done         Issue a third Internet-Draft of the ABNF document.

  Done         Issue a second Internet-Draft of the revised message format
               document.

  Done         Issue a fourth Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.

  Done         Meet at Memphis IETF

  Done         Issue a final Internet Draft of ABNF document.

  Done         Issue a fifth Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.

  Done         Issue a third Internet-Draft of the revised message format
               document.

  Done         Issue a final Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.

  Done         Issue a final Internet-Draft of the revised message format
               document.

  Done         Meet at Munich IETF.

  Done         Final revision of message format document ready for
               publication

  Done         Submit final SMTP update to IESG for publication as RFC


Internet-Drafts:

 No Current Internet-Drafts.

Request For Comments:

 RFC   Stat Published     Title
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RFC2234 PS   NOV 97    Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF

RFC2822 PS   APR 01    Internet Message Format

RFC2821 PS   APR 01    Simple Mail Transfer Protocol