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Y A M

• Yet Another Mail
• Working Group

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What do the following RFCshave in common?

• SMTP / Submit
• 1652 SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIME
  transport. July 1994.
• 3461 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Service
  Extension for Delivery Status Notifications
  (DSNs). January 2003.
• 4409 Message Submission for Mail. April 2006.
• 5321 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. October 2008
• Message Format and Headers
• 1864 The Content-MD5 Header Field. October 1995.
• 3282 Content Language Headers. May 2002.
• 3803 Content Duration MIME Header Definition.
  June 2004.
• 5322 Internet Message Format. October 2008
• MIME
• 2045 MIME Part One Format of Internet Message
  Bodies. November 1996.
• 2046 MIME Part Two Media Types. November 1996.
• 2047 MIME Part Three Message Header Extensions
  for Non-ASCII Text. November 1996.
• 2049 MIME Part Five Conformance Criteria and
  Examples. November 1996.
• Other
• 3462 The Multipart/Report Content Type for the
  Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages.
  January 2003.
• 3463 Enhanced Mail System Status Codes. January
  2003.
• 3464 An Extensible Message Format for Delivery
  Status Notifications. January 2003.

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Whats in common?

• They are all currently Draft Standard
• The oldest is 14 years old
• 1652 SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIME
  transport. July 1994.
• They are all candidates for advancement to Full
  Standard

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2026

• 4.1.3 Internet Standard
• A specification for which significant
  implementation and successful operational
  experience has been obtained may be elevated to
  the Internet Standard level. An Internet
  Standard (which may simply be referred to as a
  Standard) is characterized by a high degree of
  technical maturity and by a generally held belief
  that the specified protocol or service provides
  significant benefit to the Internet community.

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2026

• 6.2 Advancing in the Standards Track
• (An IESG standards action) is followed for each
  action that attends the advancement of a
  specification along the standards track.
• A specification shall remain at the Draft
  Standard level for at least four (4) months, or
  until at least one IETF meeting has occurred,
  whichever comes later.

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2026

• 6.2 Advancing in the Standards Track
• A specification may be (indeed, is likely to be)
  revised as it advances through the standards
  track.
• At each stage, the IESG shall determine the scope
  and significance of the revision to the
  specification, and, if necessary and appropriate,
  modify the recommended action.
• Minor revisions are expected, but a significant
  revision may require that the specification
  accumulate more experience at its current
  maturity level before progressing.
• Finally, if the specification has been changed
  very significantly, the IESG may recommend that
  the revision be treated as a new document,
  reentering the standards track at the beginning.
• Change of status shall result in republication of
  the specification as an RFC, except in the rare
  case that there have been no changes at all in
  the specification since the last publication.

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Much of the work will be

• a review
• followed by either
• a recommendation to the IESG to modify the status
  of the existing status, or
• a revised document to be submitted for acceptance
  as Full Standard.
• Repeat for next RFC

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Revised documents

• Limit to known errata
• NO NEW WORK!!!!

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An example of the strategya plan for 2821ter /
5321bis

• Wait the appropriate number of months to see if
  theres anything major that we goofed on
• Conservatively Feb 2009
• depends on how time is measured
• Drop in minor non-technical changes identified
  late in previous cycle
• better cross referencing of ABNF productions
• better IPv6 syntax definition
• Post the revision
• Insist that there be no rehashing of old
  arguments
• Get it passed

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Charter Discussion

• People will be discussing charter this week
• (starting at end of app area meeting)

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• "The time has come," the Walrus said,
• "To talk of many things
• Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax
• Of cabbages and kings
• And why the sea is boiling hot
• And whether pigs have wings."