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- From gray@cac.washington.edu Wed Jul 7 20:39:59 1993
- Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1993 22:30:55 -0700 (PDT)
- From: Terry Gray <gray@cac.washington.edu>
- To: imap@cac.washington.edu
- Cc: Megan Davies <mdavies@cnri.reston.va.us>
- Subject: Notes from IMAP BOF 3/31/93 (Columbus IETF)
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- 1. Attendance:
- 16 people came (5 others expressed regret that they couldn't make it.)
- 13 asked to be added to the IMAP email list.
- 7 planned to attend the Amsterdam IETF.
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- 2. Agenda:
- -Introductions
- -Draft WG Charter
- -Discussion
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- 3. Results:
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- There was general agreement that the focus of the proposed working group
- should be to refine and extend the existing IMAP2/IMAP2bis protocol,
- hopefully without breaking the installed base of IMAP2-capable software.
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- The wording of the proposed WG charter was deemed generally acceptable.
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- A list of desired IMAP extensions was made. Many of the proposed features
- appear to be within the scope of the CMU IMSP (Interactive Mail Support
- Protocol) project, rather than IMAP. Also, some are likely to be
- incompatible with current software.
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- It was clear that disconnected operation, ala DMSP/PC-Mail, was a very
- high priority.
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- 4. Wish list:
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- -Support for disconnected operation
- -Offline sorting of mailbox
- -Background server searching and sorting
- -Shared mailbox per-user state (like a .newsrc, but for mailboxes)
- -Function to determine where to submit messages
- -Storage/retrieval of MUA configuration data
- -Minimal non-plaintext authentication
- -Minimal confidentiality (XOR with shared secret)
- -Test assertion that PEM does not affect IMAP
- -Remote printing (from IMAP server's copy of msg)
- -Improved searching
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- 5. Next steps:
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- The proposed WG charter, with minor modifications, will soon be submitted
- to the IETF application area directors for endorsement and forwarding to
- IESG for approval of the WG.
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- The wish list will be combined with other input and categorized according
- to scope, compatibility, etc.
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- 6. References
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- Mailing list: imap@cac.washington.edu
- To subscribe: imap-request@cac.washington.edu
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- IMAP2: RFC-1176
- IMAP2bis extensions: /imap/imap2bis.txt on ftp.cac.washington.edu
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