IMAP PARTIAL Extension for Paged SEARCH and FETCH
draft-ietf-extra-imap-partial-04

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'IMAP Paged SEARCH & FETCH Extension' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-extra-imap-partial-04.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'IMAP Paged SEARCH & FETCH Extension'
  (draft-ietf-extra-imap-partial-04.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Email mailstore and eXtensions To Revise
or Amend Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Murray Kucherawy and Francesca Palombini.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-extra-imap-partial/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   The PARTIAL extension of the Internet Message Access Protocol (RFC
   3501/RFC 9051) allows clients to limit the number of search results
   returned, as well as to perform incremental (paged) searches.  This
   also helps servers to optimize resource usage when performing
   searches.

   This document extends PARTIAL SEARCH return option originally
   specified in RFC 5267.  It also clarifies some interactions between
   RFC 5267 and RFC 4731/RFC 9051.

Working Group Summary

The first version of this document had objections, and it was rewritten to be
something quite simple.  The group is quite small, and everybody who responded
was positive about this version.

Document Quality

This is implemented by Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google in their proxies for talking
with the Yahoo and AOL servers.

There are no additional formal reviews required.

Personnel

   Bron Gondwana is the document shepherd.
   Murray Kucherawy is the responsible Area Director.

RFC Editor Note