Technical Summary
CONVERT defines extensions to IMAP allowing clients to request
adaptation and/or transcoding of attachments. Clients can specify
the conversion details or allow servers to decide based on knowledge
of client capabilities, on user or administrator preferences or its
settings.
Working Group Summary
The document went through two WGLC, the first one resulted in
a major document rewrite.
After the second WGLC it became clear that there was no consensus
on proposed conversion discovery mechanisms. The editors formally
polled the WG in order to figure out if any particular approach
was preferred. Results of the poll indicated rough consensus in
favor of conversion discovery mechanism using the CONVERSIONS
command and AVAILABLECONVERSIONS CONVERT data item.
Document Quality
There is at least 1 existing server implementation and at
least 3 other server implementations are planned. At least
2 client implementers are interested in implementing the
specification.
At least 6 people have reviewed the document. Posted comments
were addressed in the latest revision.
Personnel
Eric Burger is the Document Shepherd. Chris Newman is the
Responsible Area Director.