Technical Summary
This document specifies the Internet Message Format (IMF), a syntax
for text messages that are sent between computer users, within the
framework of "electronic mail" messages. This specification is a
revision of Request For Comments (RFC) 5322, itself a revision of
Request For Comments (RFC) 2822, all of which supersede Request For
Comments (RFC) 822, "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text
Messages", updating it to reflect current practice and incorporating
incremental changes that were specified in other RFCs.
Note that this standards action promotes this document and its companion
document to Internet Standard.
Working Group Summary
The emailcore working group’s charter was to perform a “limited review and
revision” of documents that describe a widely installed and used protocol.
Participation in the emailcore working group was generally limited to a
dozen or so individuals, owing in large part to the group’s work being
focused on revising fifteen year old documents that are themselves
third-generation revisions of originals first published in 1982.
When reviewing this document, it is strongly suggested that you refer to:
https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url1=rfc5322&url2=draft-ietf-emailcore-rfc5322bis
Document Quality
These are very well established protocols. Implementations, commercial and
open source, abound.
No particular reviewers that haven't already weighed in are critical to
forward movement here.
Personnel
The Document Shepherd for this document is Todd Herr. The Responsible
Area Director is Murray Kucherawy.