Detailed Revision/Update of Message Standards (drums) ----------------------------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 2001-04-26 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): Chris Newman Applications Area Director(s): Ned Freed Patrik Faltstrom Applications Area Advisor: Ned Freed Mailing Lists: General Discussion:drums@cs.utk.edu To Subscribe: drums-request@cs.utk.edu Archive: ftp://cs.utk.edu/pub/drums/mail-archive/ Description of Working Group: The goal of this working group is to develop and review revised versions of RFC 821 and RFC 822, incorporating the revisions in RFC 974, RFC 1123, and RFC 1651. In addition, the group will review other RFCs related to messaging, and determine the applicability of each of these to the future direction of the messaging in the Internet. The group may choose to incorporate, deprecate, or write applicability statements for such documents, as necessary to produce a clear statement of requirements for overall interoperability of Internet electronic mail. The documents produced by the working group are intended to be submitted to the IESG for consideration as Internet Standards. Items appropriate for inclusion in documents produced by the working group include corrections, clarifications, and amplifications to reflect existing practice or to address problems which have been identified through experience with Internet mail protocols. New functionality is expressly inappropriate. Goals and Milestones: Done Issue a first Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document. Done Issue a first Internet-Draft of the ABNF document. Done Issue a second Interent-Draft of the revised SMTP document. Done Issue a second Internet-Draft of the ABNF document. Done Issue a first Internet-Draft of the revised message format document. Done Issue a third Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document. Done Issue a third Internet-Draft of the ABNF document. Done Issue a second Internet-Draft of the revised message format document. Done Issue a fourth Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document. Done Meet at Memphis IETF Done Issue a final Internet Draft of ABNF document. Done Issue a fifth Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document. Done Issue a third Internet-Draft of the revised message format document. Done Issue a final Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document. Done Issue a final Internet-Draft of the revised message format document. Done Meet at Munich IETF. Done Final revision of message format document ready for publication Done Submit final SMTP update to IESG for publication as RFC Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC2234 PS NOV 97 Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF RFC2822 PS APR 01 Internet Message Format RFC2821 PS APR 01 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol