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Concluded WG Mail Extensions (mailext)

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WG	Name	Mail Extensions
	Acronym	mailext
	Area	Applications Area (app)
	State	Concluded
	Charter	charter-ietf-mailext-01 Approved
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Personnel	Chair	Allan Cargille
Mailing list	Address	mailext@list.cren.net
	To subscribe	listproc@list.cren.net
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Final Charter for Working Group

The Mail Extensions Working Group will review, refine as
needed, and then make a recommendation on standardization of several
recent proposals for standards-track compatible extensions to SMTP
(via the Service Extensions mechanism), MIME (via new Content
Subtypes), and MIME-MHS (via MIME Content Subtypes and usage rules).

It will also act as the review body for several documents that
clarify and provide applicability statements about the use of
Internet mail: that work will ultimately lead to an update for the
mail-related section of RFC 1123. Part of that effort involves
RARE WG-MSG documents that address the Internet's installed
electronic mail infrastructure. Since such documents should not
be processed in RARE alone, this working group will act as the
IETF focus for reviewing them.

Initial drafts of all of the documents that the working group is
expected to review have already been, or will soon be, published.
The working group will be starting with documents that have been
prepared as individual (or spontaneous design team) contributions.
It is not expected to initiate new work. On the other hand, it is
expected to make explicit not ready for standardization'' orinappropriate for standardization'' recommendations if that is
appropriate.

The working group will be initialized with the following Internet-
Drafts or their successors, listed alphabetically. A major
purpose
of its first meeting is to prune or add to this list.

  draft-freed-ftbp-00.txt

  draft-freed-smtp-pipeline-00.txt

  draft-houttuin-mailservers-02.txt

  draft-rare-msg-a-bombs-00.txt

  draft-rare-msg-c-bombs-00.txt

  draft-vaudreuil-smtp-binary-04.txt

  draft-vaudreuil-smtp-stream-00.txt

Milestones

Date	Milestone	Associated documents
May 1995	Clarifications and applicability statements documents ready for Last Call and IESG processing to Proposed Standard.
Apr 1995	Final review on clarifications and applicability statements documents as Internet-Drafts during IETF.
Jan 1995	New Internet-Drafts of clarifications and applicability statements documents.
Jan 1995	Final Internet-Drafts of specification documents ready for Last Call and IESG processing to Proposed Standard.
Dec 1994	Final review of remaining specification documents during the San Jose IETF. Penultimate review of clarifications and applicability statements documents.
Oct 1994	Publication of revised versions of any documents that were concluded in July to be ready to advance onto the standards track.
Oct 1994	Revised versions of specification documents identified as needing further development published as Internet-Drafts and ready for processing and final review.
Sep 1994	Revised drafts and IESG processing of any documents that were concluded in July to be ready for processing.
Jul 1994	Publish an Internet-Draft on mail transport clarifications.

Done milestones

Date	Milestone	Associated documents
Done	Meet at the Toronto IETF. Review pending Internet-Drafts and decide for each whether it is ready for processing to Proposed, should be published as Experimental or Informational, should be discarded as a working group effort, or should be a candidate for further working group development. Refine the charter and work plan.